Connecticut · Private foundation
Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $50k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $962k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $68k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $109k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $68k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $74k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy | $200,000 | 8 | n/a |
| American Friends of Itim Inc | $190,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Manhattan University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Renaissance Experience Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends of Eretz Hemdah | $15,500 | 3 | 1% |
| American Friends of Matan Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Matan Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thru My Eyes Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation with peer funders
About Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation
- How much does Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation give?
- Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Religion (45%), International (3%).
- Who are Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy ($200k), American Friends of Itim Inc ($190k), Manhattan University ($30k).
- Does Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Isaac and Cilly Ziering 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 Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation based?
- Isaac and Cilly Ziering Foundation is based in CT.
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