Georgia · Private foundation
The Zeist Foundation Inc
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.
- $16M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2024
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 86 to 94
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $268M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Zeist Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 86 | $15M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $14M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $9.8M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 93 | $8.8M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $9.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dekalb Medical Center | $4,400,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $2,150,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Wylde Center Inc | $2,095,016 | 5 | 85% |
| Fernbank Inc | $1,750,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Atlanta Speech School Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Sheltering Arms Inc | $1,050,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Feeding Georgia Inc | $875,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (1361) | $775,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Atlanta Union Mission Corporation | $750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc | $708,333 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 125 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Zeist Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 121 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
About The Zeist Foundation Inc
- How much does The Zeist Foundation Inc give?
- The Zeist Foundation Inc reported 89 grants totaling $15,637,668 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 94 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Zeist Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The Zeist Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Dekalb Medical Center ($4.4M), Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc ($2.2M), Wylde Center Inc ($2.1M).
- Does The Zeist Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zeist 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 Zeist Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Zeist Foundation Inc based?
- The Zeist Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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