· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | $500,000 |
| Caron Foundation | $210,000 |
| Packer Collegiate Institute | $166,666 |
| Neighbors Link | $150,000 |
| Third Way Institute | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| Northern Westchester Hospital | $100,000 |
| Blue Path Service Dogs | $75,000 |
| Porter's Call | $66,667 |
| Project Heal | $65,000 |
| Extended Family Solutions | $61,480 |
| The Breakthrough Fund | $55,000 |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | $50,000 |
| Rideback Rise | $50,000 |
| United Israel Appeal | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
96 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 23 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE5× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +34%
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
- RSRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2023 · $788k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CRCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF USone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -81%
- UJUnited Jewish Federationone grant, 2023 · $36k
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +161%
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 211 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds PORTERS CALL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE ↗
- Who funds ANGUILLA INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RIDEBACK RISE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXTENDED FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOB PATH INC ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Anchor House Inc: 45% of income from government
- The Finca Vigia Foundation Inc: 39% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
- Riverview School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on ZelnickBelzberg’s filings →