· Private foundation
Lotty Zucker 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 $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIV | $45,000 |
| OHOLEI TORAH | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,800 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF JEWISH MONUMENTS | $5,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| BARD GRADUATE CENTER | $2,000 |
| OHR SOMAYACH INT'L | $1,800 |
| RTA INC | $1,500 |
| BELZ INST IN ISRAEL | $720 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| JEWISH PARENT ACADEMY | $500 |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
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 (FY25–25, $180) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 12 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +40%
- AFAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ6× · 2019–2024 · $155k · revenue -4%
- AFAMERICNA FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIV2× · 2017–2018 · $60k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- IOInstitute of Biblical Culture Incone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
publish religious books
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Discover and restore Jewish literary works
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
None
To further jewish education in israel
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Institute of Biblical Culture Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREENFAITH INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEPING WEAZEL INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lotty Zucker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lotty Zucker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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