Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Zisman 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.
- $168k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 48
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $136k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Zisman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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 | 20 | $168k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $290k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $241k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $467k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $544k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $458k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipley School | $320,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kimmel Center Inc | $243,956 | 5 | 0% |
| Peter's Place | $120,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Merion Golf Club | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $44,210 | 2 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ursinus College | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Academy in Manayunk | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pga Reach Philadelphia | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zisman Family 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: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Zisman Family Foundation
- How much does The Zisman Family Foundation give?
- The Zisman Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $168,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Zisman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (23%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are The Zisman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Shipley School ($320k), Kimmel Center Inc ($244k), Peter's Place ($121k).
- Does The Zisman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zisman 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 Zisman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw, The Philadelphia Foundation, Hamilton Family Foundation.
- Where is The Zisman Family Foundation based?
- The Zisman Family Foundation is based in PA.
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