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The Zausner 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2025
42
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 42
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Zausner Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving43$55k12%
FY202442$37k14%
FY202338$32k5%
FY202238$28k11%
FY202138$28k16%
FY202033$23kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$56kEducation$46kCivil Rights$34kArts & Culture$18kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$4kHousing & Shelter$4kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zausner Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSyracuse University: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Humanist Association: $6,525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSecular Student Alliance: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $5,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFinal Exit Network Inc: $5,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Inquiry Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Public Integrity: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDeath With Dignity National Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,930 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Coalition Against Censorship Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrug Policy Alliance: $750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Tennis Foundation Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Aphasia Association I: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Austrian Foundation Inc: $500 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 31.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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Find your warmest path to The Zausner Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Zausner Foundation Inc

How much does The Zausner Foundation Inc give?
The Zausner Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $54,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Zausner Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (23%), Civil Rights (17%).
Who are The Zausner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Syracuse University ($8k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($8k), Compassion & Choices ($7k).
Does The Zausner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Zausner Foundation 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 Zausner Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Zausner Foundation Inc based?
The Zausner Foundation 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 57 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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