Texas · Private foundation
William and Sylvia Zale 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.
- $367k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations William and Sylvia Zale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 18 | $347k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $255k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $268k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $245k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $586k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $538k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Legacy Senior Communities Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Jewish Family Service | $177,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Froth and Bubble Foundation | $95,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco | $90,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Weecycle | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fairhill School | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vogel Alcove | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Frazier Revitalization Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($855k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William and Sylvia Zale 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: Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Laurie and Todd Platt Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare William and Sylvia Zale Foundation with peer funders
About William and Sylvia Zale Foundation
- How much does William and Sylvia Zale Foundation give?
- William and Sylvia Zale Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $367,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William and Sylvia Zale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Philanthropy (14%), Health (8%).
- Who are William and Sylvia Zale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Legacy Senior Communities Inc ($500k), Jewish Family Service ($178k), Froth and Bubble Foundation ($95k).
- Does William and Sylvia Zale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William and Sylvia Zale 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 William and Sylvia Zale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dallas Jewish Community Foundation, Laurie and Todd Platt Family Charitable Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.
- Where is William and Sylvia Zale Foundation based?
- William and Sylvia Zale Foundation is based in TX.
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