Connecticut · Private foundation
The Zachs Family 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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 138
- Grants FY2025
- 140
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $638,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 123 to 140
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Zachs Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 | 134 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 140 | $1.5M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 130 | $1.1M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 128 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 127 | $1.3M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 127 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 123 | $1.2M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 126 | $1.3M | 17% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Laurelwood Inc | $1,280,400 | 9 | 17% |
| Trinity College | $658,658 | 9 | 0% |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | $522,540 | 9 | 1% |
| BNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut | $421,300 | 7 | 27% |
| The Williston Northampton School | $375,360 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Hartford | $270,200 | 9 | 0% |
| The Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall | $217,860 | 9 | 0% |
| New England Jewish Academy | $216,204 | 9 | 2% |
| The Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center Inc | $173,290 | 5 | 1% |
| Keshet Inc | $151,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 118 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Zachs Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Zachs Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Zachs Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Zachs Family Foundation Inc reported 138 grants totaling $2,003,497 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 123 and 140 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Zachs Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Philanthropy (18%), Religion (15%).
- Who are The Zachs Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Camp Laurelwood Inc ($1.3M), Trinity College ($659k), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ($523k).
- Does The Zachs Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zachs Family 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 Zachs Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc.
- Where is The Zachs Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Zachs Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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