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Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$674,302
Organizations funded a year
12 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$264k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$1.1M9%
FY202316$731k44%
FY202214$725k57%
FY202123$817k70%
FY202012$526k50%
FY201916$703k31%
FY201826$923k69%
FY201716$458kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$5.4MEducation$385kPhilanthropy$45kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$6kInternational$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Mashadi Jewish Community of America Inc$2,473,9045n/a
Keren Yad Shmuel Ve Tamar$632,850385%
Chabad of Great Neck Inc$73,8206n/a
Yeshivat Kol Yaakov$32,3352n/a
Yeshiva Kol Yaakov$26,7002n/a
Tsq Inc$10,00070%
North Shore Hebrew Academy$5,00010%
American Friends of Chabad Vietnam Inc$5,00011%
Friends of Hotd Inc$3,2602n/a
American Friends of Yekerai Yerushalaim$3,00010%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Mashadi Jewish Community of America Inc$2,473,9045n/a
Keren Yad Shmuel Ve Tamar$632,850385%
Chabad of Great Neck Inc$73,8206n/a
Yeshivat Kol Yaakov$32,3352n/a
Yeshiva Kol Yaakov$26,7002n/a
Tsq Inc$10,00070%
North Shore Hebrew Academy$5,00010%
American Friends of Chabad Vietnam Inc$5,00011%
Friends of Hotd Inc$3,2602n/a
American Friends of Yekerai Yerushalaim$3,00010%
Chai Lifeline Inc$3,00020%
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Encourage Kids Foundation$2,50010%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$2,2501n/a
American Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc$2,10020%
Payam Cultural Society Inc$1,80031%
Special Olympics New York Inc$1,25020%
American Friends of Kol Yehuda Inc$1,08030%
Keter Abraham of Chabad Inc$1,0001n/a
Ezrat Israel Inc$1,0001n/a
Bonei Olam Inc$1,00010%
Shlofmitz Heart Foundation Inc Attnddk$1,00010%
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers$1,0001n/a
Marist University$50010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$15010%
Chaim Tovim Outreach Inc$12610%

Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKeren Yad Shmuel Ve Tamar: $632,850 over 3y, 85% of budgetTsq Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Shore Hebrew Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad Vietnam Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yekerai Yerushalaim: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEncourage Kids Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPayam Cultural Society Inc: $1,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSpecial Olympics New York Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Kol Yehuda Inc: $1,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShlofmitz Heart Foundation Inc Attnddk: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarist University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChaim Tovim Outreach Inc: $126 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY20.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Ch Foundation · Bnei Binyamin & Rivka Kalaty Charitable Foundation Inc · Benny & Kathrin Namdar Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation

How much does Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation give?
Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,058,442 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (90%), Education (6%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Mashadi Jewish Community of America Inc ($2.5M), Keren Yad Shmuel Ve Tamar ($633k), Chabad of Great Neck Inc ($74k).
Does Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Davood and Tamara Zar Family 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 Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Ch Foundation, Bnei Binyamin & Rivka Kalaty Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation based?
Davood and Tamara Zar Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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