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The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,400
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$371k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$44k8%
FY202411$41k27%
FY202311$34k55%
FY202212$34k33%
FY20219$34k44%
FY202013$34k0%
FY201914$43k14%
FY201816$45k50%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$338k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
KS
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,400
Individual grant recipient$4,200
Individual grant recipient$4,200
Individual grant recipient$4,200
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,900
Individual grant recipient$1,900

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How do I get to The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc

How much does The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc give?
The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Does The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc based?
The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc is based in MI.

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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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