· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k110 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $774k
- $250k+1 grant · $638k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp Laurelwood | $638,200 |
| The Hartford Foundation For Publc G | $155,000 |
| Solomon Schecher Day School | $151,000 |
| Wadsworth Atheneum | $141,840 |
| Jewish Federation | $135,000 |
| Dignity Grows | $100,000 |
| University of Hartford | $91,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,000 |
| KESHET | $31,000 |
| The Williston Northampon School | $30,000 |
| University of Connecticut-Hillel | $27,500 |
| BLACKIE HOUSE LIBRARY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| The Bushnell | $23,000 |
| Ct Museum of Culture and History | $20,000 |
| Trinity College | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $534k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Zachs Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
167 repeat relationships: 116 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCAMP LAURELWOOD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +98%
TRINITY COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $659k · revenue +31%- WAWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $523k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- JDJohAthan's Dream Fundone grant, 2017 · $50k
- GUGOODWIN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $26k
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +25%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Jewish federation of greater hartford is the community leader and agent of change. our mission is to support, coordinate and develop priority programs and services that welcome all jewish families; bring unique jewish education and…
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
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The jewish federation of greater new haven, inc. is the central planning, fund-raising and coordinating body of the jewish community in new haven county,connecticut. the jewish federation funds a variety of constituent and beneficiary…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford unlocks the transformative power of individuals and collective philanthropy to address problems, strengthen community organizations,and provide permanent support for the Jewish Community…
How this is measured
114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 242 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zachs Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zachs Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc: 100% of income from government
- Angel of Edgewood Inc: 100% of income from government
- Harc Inc: 92% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Community Living Inc: 84% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
- Youth Business Initiative: 36% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf: 32% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc: 24% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial: 22% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury: 18% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc: 10% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc: 8% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
- Federation Homes Inc: 3% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc: 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph: 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Intensive Education Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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