· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONX HS OF SCIENCE ENDOW FUND | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| EXPONENT PHILANTHROPY WASH DC | $1,700 |
| CENTER FOR INQUIRY | $1,500 |
| SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| FREEDOM FROM RELGN FNDN | $1,500 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ACLU FNDN | $1,500 |
| MEM SLOAN KETT CANCER CNTR | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSN | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| GUARDIAN (THE) WASHINGTON DC | $1,250 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +29%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +65%- CCCOMPASSION & CHOICES6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -66%
- ACACTBLUE CHARITIES SOMERVILLE MAone grant, 2024 · $1k
- JTJUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $600 · revenue +72%
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.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 57 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.
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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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zausner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zausner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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