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Connecticut · Public charity

Zane Foundation Inc

The zane foundation scholarships are gifted to the top 5 branford high school graduating seniors who display character and citizenship in the community. Each recipient is awarded 1,000.00. 500.00 each year, for two consecutive years, to help lighten the financial burden of continuing his or her education.

$5k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
9
Organizations funded FY2021
44%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$500
Largest grant, FY2021
$500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 9
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$6k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 44% of the organizations Zane Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20219$5k44%
FY20208$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$9k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500

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About Zane Foundation Inc

How much does Zane Foundation Inc give?
Zane Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Zane Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Does Zane Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Zane Foundation Inc based?
Zane Foundation Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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