Texas · Private foundation
Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $771k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 13 | $144k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $198k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $323k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $211k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $667k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's University | $392,920 | 6 | 0% |
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $168,750 | 6 | 0% |
| San Antonio Museum of Art | $80,857 | 5 | 1% |
| Saint Marys Hall Inc | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hemisfair Conservancy | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| San Antonio Children's Museum | $39,720 | 4 | 0% |
| Ballet San Antonio | $20,750 | 5 | 0% |
| The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Southwest School of Art | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas Biomedical Forum | $6,770 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Mays Family Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc · Horse Creek Trust · Ksl Family Foundation · Daniel J Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation · The Marshall Steves Foundation
How this is measured
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About Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation
- How much does Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation give?
- Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $143,690 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Education (15%), Animals (6%).
- Who are Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Mary's University ($393k), San Antonio Zoological Society ($169k), San Antonio Museum of Art ($81k).
- Does Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600, Mays Family Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
- Where is Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation based?
- Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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