California · Private foundation
The Zwick Foundation Inc
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.
- $223k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $216,056
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Zwick Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 3 | $223k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $27k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $5k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust | $216,056 | 1 | n/a |
| Athletes for Life Foundation | $22,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Reel East Texas Film Festival | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation | $4,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Unity Shoppe Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Heal the Ocean Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust | $216,056 | 1 | n/a |
| Athletes for Life Foundation | $22,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Reel East Texas Film Festival | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation | $4,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Unity Shoppe Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Heal the Ocean Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Courthouse Legacy Foundation | $1,100 | 1 | 2% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Zwick Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
About The Zwick Foundation Inc
- How much does The Zwick Foundation Inc give?
- The Zwick Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $223,056 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Zwick Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Social Science (8%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are The Zwick Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust ($216k), Athletes for Life Foundation ($23k), Reel East Texas Film Festival ($9k).
- Does The Zwick Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Zwick Foundation Inc 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 Zwick Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Zwick Foundation Inc based?
- The Zwick Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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