Texas · Private foundation
The Zierk Family 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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Zierk Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 12 | $3.1M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $2.6M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $2.9M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $4.6M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $3.1M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.6M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.0M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $2.2M | 56% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mark's School of Texas | $13,000,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Redf | $2,500,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Hawaii Preparatory Academy | $2,390,676 | 4 | 7% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $525,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Southwestern Medical Foundation | $500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tipping Point Community | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United to Learn | $160,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Monterey Peninsula Foundation | $140,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jim Saunders Fund | $125,000 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zierk Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Roberts Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Hoglund Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · The Hoak Foundation
How this is measured
About The Zierk Family Foundation
- How much does The Zierk Family Foundation give?
- The Zierk Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $3,175,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Zierk Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Employment (10%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Zierk Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Mark's School of Texas ($13M), Redf ($2.5M), Hawaii Preparatory Academy ($2.4M).
- Does The Zierk Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zierk Family 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 Zierk Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Roberts Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation.
- Where is The Zierk Family Foundation based?
- The Zierk Family Foundation is based in TX.
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