· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $600k
- $250k+10 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $3,980,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $1,034,000 |
| THE JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY FOUNDAT | $1,000,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND | $652,986 |
| BERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| TMW CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC HEALTH | $465,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IMPACT FUND | $350,000 |
| GLIDE FOUNDATION | $333,333 |
| GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| START EARLY | $200,000 |
| GRATEFUL GATHERINGS | $100,000 |
| CENTER ON CHILD AND FAMILY POLICY | $100,000 |
| JERRY WEISS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (UIC) | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-CHICAGO | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $979k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JBJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN6× · 2018–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +113%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +51%
START EARLY6× · 2018–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +106%
Funded once
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $2.0M
- GMGLIDE MEMORIAL FEED THE HUNGRYone grant, 2017 · $625k
- MHMercy Health Foundationone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -63%
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 89 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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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