New Jersey · Private foundation
The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,612,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $175M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k 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 | 52 | $5.5M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $5.5M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $5.4M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $6.1M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $8.5M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $6.6M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 80 | $6.6M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 68 | $5.1M | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University | $10,962,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Vanderbilt University | $7,250,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Jewish Museum | $3,124,025 | 9 | 3% |
| Rutgers Hillel Corporation | $2,041,000 | 9 | 54% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,780,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,200,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $1,047,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Visual Arts Center of New Jersey | $864,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Jewish Educational Center | $830,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Rabbinical College of America | $750,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Communal Fund · The Wilf Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Mark and Jane Wilf Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
How this is measured
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About The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc
- How much does The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc give?
- The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc reported 66 grants totaling $5,584,483 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Philanthropy (17%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yeshiva University ($11M), Vanderbilt University ($7.3M), The Jewish Museum ($3.1M).
- Does The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc 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 The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ, Jewish Communal Fund, The Wilf Family Foundation.
- Where is The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc based?
- The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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