New York · Private foundation
The Zegar 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.
- $27M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 105
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,234,975
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 82
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $298M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Zegar Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 92 | $20M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $16M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $14M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $13M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | $7,189,794 | 5 | 0% |
| Rf Catalytic Capital Inc | $6,734,975 | 2 | 2% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $3,185,965 | 4 | n/a |
| Carbon Mapper Inc | $2,999,960 | 3 | 6% |
| Congregation Bnai Brith | $2,010,000 | 4 | n/a |
| World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,900,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum | $1,455,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Safe Passage Project Corporation | $1,180,000 | 4 | 8% |
| City Harvest Inc | $1,150,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 140 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Zegar Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · California Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation
How this is measured
About The Zegar Family Foundation
- How much does The Zegar Family Foundation give?
- The Zegar Family Foundation reported 105 grants totaling $27,043,087 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 82 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Zegar Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Education (15%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are The Zegar Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New York University ($7.2M), Rf Catalytic Capital Inc ($6.7M), University of California Santa Barbara ($3.2M).
- Does The Zegar Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zegar Family Foundation 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 Zegar Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Zegar Family Foundation based?
- The Zegar Family Foundation is based in NY.
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