Connecticut · Private foundation
Eric & Jessica Zachs Family 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.
- $140k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 10 | $140k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $91k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $83k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $103k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $125k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $75k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $43k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $144k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bbfg Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc | $70,243 | 3 | 1% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $66,385 | 5 | 0% |
| Hartford Hospital | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Clark Atlanta University Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Riverfront Recapture Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Connecticut Children's Medical Center | $24,930 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($251k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eric & Jessica Zachs Family 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut
How this is measured
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About Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation
- How much does Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation give?
- Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $140,030 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bbfg Foundation Inc ($100k), Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc ($70k), The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc ($66k).
- Does Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eric & Jessica Zachs 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 Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation.
- Where is Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation based?
- Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation is based in CT.
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