New York · Private foundation
The Zalner Foundation
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.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $117k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Zalner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 40 | $58k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $83k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $73k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $83k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $71k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $62k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $93k | 14% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $58,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $43,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Smile Train Inc | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zalner Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Mutual of America Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Zalner Foundation
- How much does The Zalner Foundation give?
- The Zalner Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $57,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Zalner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (31%), Public Safety & Disaster (19%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Zalner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Relief Services ($59k), Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens ($45k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($45k).
- Does The Zalner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zalner Foundation 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 Zalner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mutual of America Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Zalner Foundation based?
- The Zalner Foundation is based in NY.
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