Private foundation
The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,333,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $1.6M | 80% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $2.1M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $100k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $1,333,333 | 1 | n/a |
| Yud Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| South Bend Youth Hockey Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Spina Bifida Association of North Texas Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower East Side Printshop Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $10,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Eanes Education Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Challenge to Conquer Cancer | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation
- How much does The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation give?
- The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,687,983 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (70%), Health (10%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
- Who are The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Holocaust Memorial Center Inc ($1.3M), Yud Foundation Inc ($250k), South Bend Youth Hockey Inc ($100k).
- Does The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
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