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.

Where is William and Sylvia Zale Foundation based?

William and Sylvia Zale Foundation is based in TX.

William and Sylvia Zale Foundation

William and Sylvia Zale Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

William and Sylvia Zale Foundation

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$63k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$868kPhilanthropy$371kHealth$230kReligion$195kEducation$176kInternational$150kFood & Nutrition$135kHousing & Shelter$115kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $17k
$10k–50k16 grants · $238k
$50k–250k2 grants · $113k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE	$62,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE	$50,000
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER	$35,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL	$25,000
CORNERSTONE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION	$20,000
OPERATION ISRAEL INC	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION	$15,000
FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION	$15,000
FAIRHILL SCHOOL	$12,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUND AND ENDOWMEN	$10,000
CENTER 12 INC FKA LAMDA CENTER	$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX HILL COU	$10,000
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDISRAEL FRIE	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 31 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+30%

Still filing today

55%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TL
THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC
2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +107%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
4× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +17%
FA
Froth and Bubble Foundation
5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +6%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE
one grant, 2024 · $75k
J
JDC
one grant, 2022 · $25k
BI
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston

The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston (JFGH) works with partner organizations and members of the community to create a thriving and vibrant Jewish community here in Houston, in Israel, and around the world.

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JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

—

Jewish Family Service

Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

Human Services

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

—

Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services

Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; the most unlike its peers is Inter-Mountain Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

23/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,104,500Arts & Culture$550,000Human Services$397,500Philanthropy$376,409Education$151,000Public Benefit$90,000International$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Dallas Jewish Community FoundationTX19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William and Sylvia Zale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Sylvia Zale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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