Illinois · Private foundation
Zafirovski Family 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.
- $522k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Zafirovski Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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 | 20 | $522k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $349k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $166k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $366k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $441k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $471k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $446k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucknell University | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | $445,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Macedonia 2025 | $114,500 | 2 | 17% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspiro Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Duke University | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucknell University | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | $445,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Macedonia 2025 | $114,500 | 2 | 17% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspiro Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Duke University | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Redeemer City To City | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Glenwood Academy | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Champions Community Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Academy for Urban School Leadership | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cup O Joy Ministries Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Forest Academy | $3,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zafirovski Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
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How this is measured
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About Zafirovski Family Foundation
- How much does Zafirovski Family Foundation give?
- Zafirovski Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $522,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Zafirovski Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (29%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Zafirovski Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Bucknell University ($450k), Church of the Holy Spirit ($445k), Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching ($180k).
- Does Zafirovski Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zafirovski Family 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 Zafirovski Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Zafirovski Family Foundation based?
- Zafirovski Family Foundation is based in IL.
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