· Private foundation
The Zankel Scala Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| SAINT ANNS SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| WHYHUNGER INC | $45,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE | $20,000 |
| BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $15,000 |
| WE ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE INC | $15,000 |
| THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| HEAD COUNT INC | $10,000 |
| CIRCUSENSE | $10,000 |
| SLAPPY AND MONDAYS FOUNDATION FORLAUGHTER | $10,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE INC | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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 12% of The Zankel Scala Family Foundation’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 +24% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $732k · revenue +27%
- SASAINT ANN'S SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $705k · revenue +21%
- SASlappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SUSERVICEMEMBERS UNDERTAKING DISABLED SPORTSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -27%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
How this is measured
80 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. 80 of the 84 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Slappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUSENSE INC ↗
- Who funds USA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN WOMEN'S EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THERAPY ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds SERVICEMEMBERS UNDERTAKING DISABLED SPORTS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Day One of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Heights 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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zankel Scala Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zankel Scala Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc: 71% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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