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Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$583k
Granted FY2018
21
Grants FY2018
20
Organizations funded FY2018
90%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$13,585
Largest grant, FY2018
$94,290
Organizations funded a year
3 to 20
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 90% of the organizations Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201820$556k90%
FY20173$50kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Religion$171kEducation$109kHuman Services$82kHealth$68kArts & Culture$55kFood & Nutrition$54kEnvironment$27kAnimals$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhilabundance: $54,340 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut College: $54,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChoate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: $54,340 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Relief and Development: $27,170 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation: $27,170 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region: $27,170 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeaumont Retirement Services Inc: $13,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $13,585 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Junior League of Philadelphia Inc: $13,585 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $13,585 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryn Mawr Theatre Film Institute: $13,585 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $13,584 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $13,584 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust

How much does Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust give?
Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $583,346 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Education (17%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Church of the Redeemer ($144k), Philabundance ($54k), Connecticut College ($54k).
Does Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Randolph and Josephine Zelov 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 Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust based?
Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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