Arizona · Private foundation
The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $202k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $202k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $237k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $230k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $151k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $115k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $53k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $81k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $86k | 14% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Center Ministries | $280,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc | $51,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Homeless Youth Connection Inc | $50,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Valleylife | $47,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Veterans on Deck | $35,500 | 8 | n/a |
| The Welcome to America Project | $34,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Unlimited Potential Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Special Needs Solutions | $23,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Border Solidarity | $22,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Justa Center Inc | $21,011 | 8 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bozena And Josef Zelenda 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: Arizona Community Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Schulz Charitable Foundation Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation with peer funders
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About The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation
- How much does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation give?
- The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $202,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Human Services (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercy Center Ministries ($280k), Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc ($51k), Homeless Youth Connection Inc ($50k).
- Does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation based?
- The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation is based in AZ.
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