Connecticut · Private foundation
Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,579
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $995k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $50k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $44k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $43k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $49k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $36k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $32k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut Incorporated | $26,940 | 4 | n/a |
| Towers Watson Retiree Life Voluntary Employee Benefits Association | $22,290 | 6 | n/a |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $14,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Washington Litigation Group | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Memorial Episcopal Church | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Beth Am Synagogue | $5,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bolton Hill Nursery Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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
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About Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc
- How much does Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc give?
- Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $49,694 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (29%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut Incorporated ($27k), Towers Watson Retiree Life Voluntary Employee Benefits Association ($22k), Hopkins School Incorporated ($14k).
- Does Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seedlings Foundation, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore.
- Where is Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc based?
- Barak Zelinsky Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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