New York · Private foundation
The Zelniker Scherr Foundation
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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $577k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Zelniker Scherr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 16 | $32k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $35k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $44k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $52k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $60k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $51k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $31k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $32k | 44% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $33,801 | 9 | 0% |
| Community Synagogue | $31,718 | 4 | n/a |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $27,780 | 9 | 0% |
| New York Institute of Technology | $21,060 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Virginia Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Temple Beth El | $14,277 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Center for the United Nations | $11,760 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple or Elohim | $11,558 | 7 | n/a |
| Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center | $6,312 | 7 | 0% |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $5,360 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zelniker Scherr Foundation 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Rjl Charitable Foundation · The Brodsky Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About The Zelniker Scherr Foundation
- How much does The Zelniker Scherr Foundation give?
- The Zelniker Scherr Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $31,609 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Zelniker Scherr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Health (22%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Zelniker Scherr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($34k), Community Synagogue ($32k), Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ($28k).
- Does The Zelniker Scherr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zelniker Scherr 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 Zelniker Scherr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Zelniker Scherr Foundation based?
- The Zelniker Scherr Foundation is based in NY.
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