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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$405kArts & Culture$174kEducation$101kReligion$95kRecreation & Sports$78kEnvironment$35kPublic Benefit$33kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$759k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Rescue Committee$65,000
International Center for Journalism$25,000
Riverside Park Conservancy$20,000
Greater Houston Community Foundatio$15,000
The Public Theater$12,500
House of Speakeasy$10,000
The Chamber Music Center$2,500
102-103 Street Block Association$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AFC Foundation: $7k → 7%Arts Connection Partners: $10k → 14%Omega Institute: $10k → 9%Riverside Park Conservancy: $20k → 17%Project Row Houses: $10k → 16%New America Foundation: $10k → 14%Whitworth University: $10k → 12%Winnakee Land Trust: $10k → 9%Riverside Park Conservancy: $18k → 17%Project Row Houses: $10k → 16%New America Foundation: $10k → 14%Riverside Park Conservancy: $13k → 17%Project Row Houses: $10k → 16%RTCA: $15k → 14%Riverside Tennis Association: $13k → 17%Greater Houston Community Foundatio: $15k → 16%New America Foundation: $8k → 14%Riverside Park Conservancy: $10k → 17%Literacy Partners: $14k → 17%Literacy Partners: $10k → 17%Barnard College: $20k → 17%Barnard College: $20k → 17%HEAF: $15k → 17%Harlem Educational Activities Fund: $10k → 17%International House: $10k → 17%International House: $10k → 17%International House: $8k → 17%The Public Theater: $15k → 17%The Public Theater: $13k → 17%Saint Hilda's and Saint Hugh's Scho: $50k → 17%The Public Theater: $10k → 17%Saint Hilda's and Saint Hugh's Scho: $20k → 17%The Public Theater: $10k → 17%Saint Hilda's and Saint Hugh's Scho: $15k → 17%The Public Theater: $10k → 17%House of Speakeasy: $10k → 17%The Public Theater: $10k → 17%Council On Foreign Relations: $35k → 17%Council On Foreign Relations: $25k → 17%Council On Foreign Relations: $15k → 17%Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious: $10k → 17%International Rescue Committee: $70k → 17%International Rescue Committee: $65k → 17%International Rescue Committee: $40k → 17%International Rescue Committee: $30k → 17%International Rescue Committee: $30k → 17%International Rescue Committee: $30k → 17%Foreign Press Foundation: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$814k · 16 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$814k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-4%

Still filing today

81%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentScience & TechMembership BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +81%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +18%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • H
    HEAF
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • FP
    FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -99%
  • RI
    RTCA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International House and the most unlike its peers is National Poetry Series Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/24
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,736

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International Rescue Committee INC — $265,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $77,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $35,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCINTERNATIONAL HOUSE — $27,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL HOUSESaint Hilda's and Saint Hugh's Scho — $85,000 · OtherSaint Hilda's and Saint Hugh…NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $27,500 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATIONInternational Center for Journalism — $25,000 · OtherInternational Center for Jou…HEAF — $15,000 · OtherHEAFFOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherFOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION INCRiverside Tennis Association — $12,500 · OtherTanenbaum Center for Interreligious — $10,000 · OtherOmega Institute — $10,000 · OtherArts Connection Partners — $10,000 · OtherHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $32,480 · Other+9 moreNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $67,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAK…Project Row Houses — $30,000 · Arts & CultureProject Row H…SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE &…American Museum of Natural History — $5,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentRIVERSIDE …WINNAKEE LAND TRUST INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentWINNAKEE L…BARNARD COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationBARNARD C…Literacy Partners Inc — $28,768 · EducationLiteracy …WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationWHITWORTH…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyRTCA INC — $15,000 · Science & TechHOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Membership Benefit
International$404,500Other$252,480Arts & Culture$114,500Environment$95,000Education$84,768Philanthropy$15,000Science & Tech$15,000Membership Benefit$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $265,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $77,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $67,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Row Houses — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWINNAKEE LAND TRUST INC — $30,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $28,768 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRTCA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fareed and Paula Zakaria Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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