Connecticut · Private foundation
The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust
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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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 | 68 | $2.2M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $1.3M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $867k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $968k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $1.7M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $280k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant House | $1,767,827 | 5 | 1% |
| Wesleyan University | $1,284,063 | 8 | 0% |
| Riverview School Inc | $787,837 | 6 | 1% |
| Neighbors Link Corp | $611,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Porters Call | $350,001 | 6 | 21% |
| Northern Westchester Hospital Association | $315,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Packer Collegiate Institute | $286,666 | 9 | 0% |
| Project Heal Help to Eat Accept & Live | $228,500 | 4 | 11% |
| Anguilla Initiative | $211,434 | 2 | 49% |
| Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Bauer Family Foundation · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Peek Family Foundation Inc · Peckham Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust
- How much does The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust give?
- The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust reported 68 grants totaling $2,180,334 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Covenant House ($1.8M), Wesleyan University ($1.3M), Riverview School Inc ($788k).
- Does The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust 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 ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust based?
- The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust is based in CT.
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