Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Zoe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $443k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Zoe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 40 | $443k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $355k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $330k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $285k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $290k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $232k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $186k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $173k | 5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | $410,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northampton Survival Center Inc | $340,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Safe Passage Inc | $137,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Tapestry Health Systems Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Riverside Industries Inc | $76,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Manna Soup Kitchen | $73,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Kestrel Land Trust | $66,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Northampton Community Music Center Inc | $63,000 | 8 | 2% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $62,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New England Public Media Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($799k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zoe 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Ro Family Foundation · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · Living Springs Foundation
How this is measured
About The Zoe Foundation
- How much does The Zoe Foundation give?
- The Zoe Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $443,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Zoe Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Human Services (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Zoe Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc ($410k), Northampton Survival Center Inc ($340k), Safe Passage Inc ($137k).
- Does The Zoe Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zoe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Zoe Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Zoe Foundation based?
- The Zoe Foundation is based in MA.
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