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The Zarb Family Fund 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Itemized grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
77%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$300
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,746
Organizations funded a year
7 to 22
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 77% of the organizations The Zarb Family Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $632k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$1.2M42%
FY202422$1.4M77%
FY20238$256k38%
FY20227$325k57%
FY20207$181kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MEducation$1.2MReligion$442kAnimals$210kHousing & Shelter$127kHuman Services$101kFood & Nutrition$51kPublic Benefit$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($648k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zarb Family Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHofstra University: $876,173 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $501,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $250,497 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $170,197 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $126,207 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPatty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $50,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Haven Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Vincent's Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons Greater Washington Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Ford Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Appalachian Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Federation of Police and Concerned Citizens Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Zarb Family Fund Inc

How much does The Zarb Family Fund Inc give?
The Zarb Family Fund Inc reported 32 itemized grants totaling $1,154,241, out of $1,357,831 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Zarb Family Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (22%), Religion (8%).
Who are The Zarb Family Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hofstra University ($876k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($501k), The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($250k).
Does The Zarb Family Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Zarb Family Fund 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 Zarb Family Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Zarb Family Fund Inc based?
The Zarb Family Fund Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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