· Private foundation
Ann Zachary Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k25 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH CARE | $12,108 |
| LEO BAECK COLLEGE | $6,024 |
| NORTH WESTERN REFORM SYNAGOGUE | $3,045 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION | $1,205 |
| WORLD JEWISH RELIEF | $723 |
| JUSTGIVING | $663 |
| HENDERSON - GO FUND ME | $500 |
| ALYTH CHORAL SOCIETY | $319 |
| UJIA | $301 |
| TIKVA | $301 |
| ZSV FOOD LIFE LINE | $277 |
| Individual grant recipient | $241 |
| NORWOOD | $241 |
| Individual grant recipient | $241 |
| Individual grant recipient | $181 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 17% of grant dollars ($26k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 83% that went abroad ($124k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 83% of all-years giving ($124k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +149% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LBLEOIO BAECK COLLEGE4× · 2018–2021 · $26k
- NWNORTH WESTERN REFORM SYNAGOGUE5× · 2018–2022 · $22k
- MFMOVEMENT FOR REFORM JUDAISM3× · 2019–2021 · $20k
Funded once
- PIPathLight International Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +144%
- CSCARLTHORP SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +87%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ann Zachary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann Zachary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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