· 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.
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 $10k39 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN | $25,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| RELIGIOUS OF JESUS AND MARY | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD | $2,000 |
| THE SMILE TRAIN | $2,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $2,000 |
| CARE USA | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT | $1,500 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $500 |
| OUTREACH PROJECT | $500 |
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, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +46%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +98%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -52%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +167%- STSAVE THE CHILDRENone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 60 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
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.
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zalner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zalner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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