New York · Private foundation
Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust
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.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $955k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 6 | $63k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $64k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $27k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $42k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $39k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $32k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Historical Society | $206,900 | 8 | 2% |
| Finch College Alumni Association Foundation Trust | $79,569 | 9 | 44% |
| Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elem Youth in Distress Inc | $11,750 | 2 | 1% |
| The Center for Jewish History Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Denison University | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harmonie Preservation Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Hall | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wnet | $975 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Historical Society | $206,900 | 8 | 2% |
| Finch College Alumni Association Foundation Trust | $79,569 | 9 | 44% |
| Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elem Youth in Distress Inc | $11,750 | 2 | 1% |
| The Center for Jewish History Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Denison University | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harmonie Preservation Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Hall | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wnet | $975 | 1 | 0% |
| Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance | $525 | 4 | 0% |
| Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Filomen M Dagostino Greenberg Music School Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Green Science Policy Institute | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Felix y Manalo Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Huntington's Disease Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| National Rosacea Society | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $95 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust
- How much does Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust give?
- Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $62,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), Education (26%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Jewish Historical Society ($207k), Finch College Alumni Association Foundation Trust ($80k), Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service ($15k).
- Does Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust 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 Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust based?
- Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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