· Private foundation
Zakaria Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rutgers University Foundation | $120,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company | $35,000 |
| Great Swamp Watershed Assoc | $30,000 |
| HEAF | $30,000 |
| Independent Women's Forum | $30,000 |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum | $25,000 |
| Amer Assoc for the Advancement of S | $25,000 |
| New American Foundation | $25,000 |
| Two East Sixty-Second St Fdn | $25,000 |
| Friends of Seva Mandir | $25,000 |
| International Rescue Committee | $25,000 |
| Amer Society for Biochemistry Micro | $25,000 |
| Overlook Foundation | $20,000 |
| Children's Hospital of Chicago Foun | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +80%
CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +1%- IWIndependent Women's Forum5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UBUC Berkeley Foundationone grant, 2017 · $250k
- PFPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +3%
- SHSt Hilda's St Hugh's The Classroomone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 106 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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEVA MANDIR INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC ↗
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: The Kronthal Family Foundation Inc · The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation · Healey Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zakaria Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zakaria Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ipswich River Watershed Association: 68% of income from government
- Foster Care Review Inc: 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: 11% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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