Delaware · Private foundation
Zain Jaffer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $31k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $17,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $793k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Zain Jaffer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $31k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $31k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moms Against Poverty | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Waves for Water Inc | $21,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Care for Humanity | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Seeing for Ourselves Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| WorkingFilms Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grist Magazine Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Film Forum | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Zain Jaffer Foundation
- How much does Zain Jaffer Foundation give?
- Zain Jaffer Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Zain Jaffer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (43%), Environment (28%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Zain Jaffer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Moms Against Poverty ($30k), Waves for Water Inc ($21k), Care for Humanity ($10k).
- Does Zain Jaffer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zain Jaffer 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 Zain Jaffer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Zain Jaffer Foundation based?
- Zain Jaffer Foundation is based in DE.
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