· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Solomon Schechter School | $50,000 |
| Bleeding Blue for Good Fund | $50,000 |
| Koby Mandell Foundation | $10,000 |
| Hartford Hospital | $10,000 |
| Voice of Hope | $5,400 |
| Breakthrough T1D | $5,000 |
| Hartford Jewish Sports Hall of Fame | $5,000 |
| Wonder Girls USA Inc | $2,500 |
| Jewish LinksInc | $1,800 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENT | $330 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC3× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +68%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue +79%
- HHHartford Hospital7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CAClark Atlanta University Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -3%
- RRRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -9%
- NMNYU Medical Centerone grant, 2020 · $18k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BBFG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds MAX CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MEOR INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc: 100% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc: 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
- Intensive Education Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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