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E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,300,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,639,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving3$9.9M100%
FY20237$1.4M86%
FY20226$1.4M83%
FY20217$950k86%
FY20202$140k0%
FY20196$1.2M83%
FY20186$960k67%
FY20176$960kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$15MHuman Services$990kScience & Tech$640kArts & Culture$250k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
UT
MD
AL

Top grantees

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

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

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About E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind

How much does E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind give?
E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind reported 3 grants totaling $9,939,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (89%), Human Services (6%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Connecticut Institute for the Blind Inc ($3.0M), Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc ($990k), Jim Neuberger and Helen Stambler Neuberger Foundation ($250k).
Does E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind based?
E Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind is based in CT.

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 35 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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