Missouri · Private foundation
Zafft Charitable Trust
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.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $104
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Zafft Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $823 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 | 12 | $4k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $7k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $4k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $5k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $4k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $4k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $6k | 42% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Emanuel | $21,130 | 9 | n/a |
| Miriam Foundation | $4,395 | 5 | 0% |
| Pathways to Independence | $2,954 | 7 | 0% |
| Washington University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $909 | 7 | 0% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $500 | 5 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $172 | 3 | 0% |
| Suburban Journals Old Newsboy's Fund for Children | $125 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Emanuel | $21,130 | 9 | n/a |
| Miriam Foundation | $4,395 | 5 | 0% |
| Pathways to Independence | $2,954 | 7 | 0% |
| Washington University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $909 | 7 | 0% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $500 | 5 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $172 | 3 | 0% |
| Suburban Journals Old Newsboy's Fund for Children | $125 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| St Louis Jewish Light | $81 | 2 | 0% |
| Craft Alliance | $75 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $70 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $28 | 2 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $27 | 1 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Missouri | $25 | 1 | 0% |
| Als United Greater New York Inc | $18 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zafft Charitable Trust 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Zafft Charitable Trust
- How much does Zafft Charitable Trust give?
- Zafft Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $4,226 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zafft Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (14%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Zafft Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Emanuel ($21k), Miriam Foundation ($4k), Pathways to Independence ($3k).
- Does Zafft Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zafft Charitable Trust 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 Zafft Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Zafft Charitable Trust based?
- Zafft Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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