· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $2,200 |
| PATHWAY TO INDEPENDENCE | $520 |
| MIRIAM | $273 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS | $262 |
| THE ST LOUIS ZOO | $245 |
| SIMON WEISTENTHAL CENTER | $154 |
| WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS | $104 |
| WOODHAVEN | $103 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $103 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $100 |
| KETC NINE NETWORK PBS | $75 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $36 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $26 |
| BOYS TOWN | $25 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMIRIAM FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +57%
- PTPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +56%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum7× · 2017–2025 · $909 · revenue +25%
Funded once
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +76%- CCHABADone grant, 2024 · $540
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zafft Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zafft Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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