California · Private foundation
The Zelman Family Fund
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.
- $206k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,094
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $58,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Zelman Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $183k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $169k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $164k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $142k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $115k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $130k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $60k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $130k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Los Angeles | $93,600 | 2 | 1% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $71,535 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $30,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $30,150 | 6 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $27,593 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $27,104 | 5 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $26,440 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $17,763 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($586k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zelman Family Fund supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Zelman Family Fund
- How much does The Zelman Family Fund give?
- The Zelman Family Fund reported 44 grants totaling $206,261 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Zelman Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Environment (17%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Zelman Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Los Angeles ($94k), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($72k), Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($31k).
- Does The Zelman Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zelman Family Fund 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 Zelman Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Zelman Family Fund based?
- The Zelman Family Fund is based in CA.
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