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Emily J Zuckerman 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.

$63k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$19,588
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$622k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Emily J Zuckerman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 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
Arts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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 arriving4$63k0%
FY20236$27k50%
FY202220$57k45%
FY20212$13k0%
FY20206$16k83%
FY20193$92k0%
FY20184$26k100%
FY201712$4kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$200kHealth$68kReligion$11kRecreation & Sports$1kEducation$650Housing & Shelter$550Human Services$300Food & Nutrition$200Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
TN
DC

Top grantees

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

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Emily J Zuckerman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $186,588 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEden Autism Services Foundation Inc: $39,620 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaharishi Foundation USA Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcCarter Theatre Company: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHandicapped High Riders Club Riding High Farm: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavis Phinney Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliamstown Theatre Foundationinc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDwight Hall at Yale: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomefront Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValatie Free Library: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWnet: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaker Museum and Library: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Central New Jersey: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWebb School of Knoxville: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Child Development Institute: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 23.

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.

The Wawa Foundation IncPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wawa Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Emily J Zuckerman Foundation

How much does Emily J Zuckerman Foundation give?
Emily J Zuckerman Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $62,838 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Emily J Zuckerman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (67%), Health (23%), Religion (4%).
Who are Emily J Zuckerman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Roundabout Theatre Company Inc ($187k), Eden Autism Services Foundation Inc ($40k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($10k).
Does Emily J Zuckerman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Emily J Zuckerman 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 Emily J Zuckerman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Wawa Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc.
Where is Emily J Zuckerman Foundation based?
Emily J Zuckerman Foundation is based in NJ.

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 33 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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