California · Private foundation
Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 90 to 107
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $93M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k 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 | 75 | $5.7M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 101 | $4.9M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 106 | $5.0M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $3.4M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 99 | $3.4M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $3.3M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 103 | $4.5M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $4.6M | 36% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support the Enlisted Project Inc | $4,360,000 | 9 | 41% |
| TERI Inc | $2,500,000 | 3 | 4% |
| North County Lifeline Inc Dba Lifeline Community Services | $1,340,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Just in Time for Foster Youth | $1,300,000 | 8 | 15% |
| San Diego Oasis | $1,155,000 | 7 | 27% |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $1,060,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Voices for Children | $1,050,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Salvation Army | $900,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Interfaith Shelter Network of San Diego | $860,002 | 7 | 22% |
| Monarch School Project | $775,000 | 8 | 6% |
Show all 178 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 173 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation with peer funders
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About Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation
- How much does Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation give?
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $5,735,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 107 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Health (13%), Education (13%).
- Who are Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Support the Enlisted Project Inc ($4.4M), TERI Inc ($2.5M), North County Lifeline Inc Dba Lifeline Community Services ($1.3M).
- Does Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include David C Copley Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, The San Diego Foundation.
- Where is Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation based?
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation is based in CA.
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