Michigan · Private foundation
Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation
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.
- $409k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 25 | $399k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $374k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $420k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $446k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $417k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $108k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Israel of Detroit | $192,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Friendship Circle | $147,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Ort America Inc | $142,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel | $123,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Manhattan Class Company Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva | $95,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $92,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Detroit Opera | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($681k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Grosfeld Foundation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation
- How much does Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation give?
- Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $409,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Religion (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Temple Israel of Detroit ($193k), Friendship Circle ($148k), Ort America Inc ($143k).
- Does Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation 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 Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation.
- Where is Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation based?
- Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation is based in MI.
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