California · Private foundation
Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn
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.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 65
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 40 | $286k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $412k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $433k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $432k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $437k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee to Protect Journalists Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ploughshares Fund Inc | $52,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The People Concern | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Creative Growth Art Center | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
| California Jazz Conservatory Inc | $44,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kqed Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Montana Trout Unlimited | $34,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($999k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn 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: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation
How this is measured
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About Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn
- How much does Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn give?
- Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn reported 40 grants totaling $285,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 65 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Education (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Committee to Protect Journalists Inc ($100k), Alameda County Community Food Bank ($80k), Ploughshares Fund Inc ($52k).
- Does Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn 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 Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn based?
- Zalec Familian & Lilian Levinson Fdn is based in CA.
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