Illinois · Private foundation
Saul Zaentz Charitable 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.
- $9.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,980,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $89M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 | 21 | $5.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $5.3M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $6.7M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $5.5M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $5.0M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $8.4M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $9.1M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $5.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn | $6,850,000 | 6 | 22% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $5,414,380 | 7 | 0% |
| Start Early | $5,126,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Arts for Learning Maryland Inc | $3,018,720 | 6 | 8% |
| Glide Foundation | $1,858,333 | 7 | 2% |
| Berkeley Film Foundation | $1,150,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc | $972,500 | 5 | 25% |
| Teach for America Inc | $900,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mercy Health Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Juvenile Protective Association | $428,500 | 1 | 24% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Trust Funds Incorporated · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Telluride Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation
- How much does Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation give?
- Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $9,487,319 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Science & Tech (27%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn ($6.8M), Johns Hopkins University ($5.4M), Start Early ($5.1M).
- Does Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saul Zaentz Charitable 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 Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Heffernan Group Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation based?
- Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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