New York · Private foundation
Fareed and Paula Zakaria 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.
- $151k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $759k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 7 | $136k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $83k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $19k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $63k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $103k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $141k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $158k | 64% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $265,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $77,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $67,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Riverside Park Conservancy Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Project Row Houses | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Winnakee Land Trust Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Literacy Partners Inc | $28,768 | 3 | 1% |
| New America Foundation | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $265,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $77,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $67,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Riverside Park Conservancy Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Project Row Houses | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Winnakee Land Trust Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Literacy Partners Inc | $28,768 | 3 | 1% |
| New America Foundation | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| International House | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Whitworth University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foreign Press Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Rtca Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shakespeare & Company Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| House of Speakeasy Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The@Politic Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Museum of Natural History | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Poetry Series Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Signet Society | $3,280 | 2 | n/a |
| Saint Ann's School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($186k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fareed and Paula Zakaria 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.
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How this is measured
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About Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation
- How much does Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation give?
- Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $150,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (41%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (10%).
- Who are Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: International Rescue Committee INC ($265k), Council on Foreign Relations Inc ($77k), New York Shakespeare Festival ($68k).
- Does Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fareed and Paula Zakaria 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 Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation based?
- Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation is based in NY.
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