· Private foundation
Zarks Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION SHAAREY ISRAEL | $14,867 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $13,460 |
| MERRIFIELDS HORSE RESCUE AND RETIREMENT | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN TENNIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA | $2,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND | $1,000 |
| MACON CIVIC CLUB | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTEMPLE BETH ISRAEL5× · 2017–2024 · $55k
- CSCONGREGATION SHA AREY ISRAEL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $47k
- MFMACON FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIES4× · 2020–2023 · $46k
Funded once
- MFMACON FEDERATION OF JEWISHone grant, 2017 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $7k
- NSNext Step Ministries Incone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue 0%
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 gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel
To provide jewish educational, social, athletic and cultural programs to the community.
Enrich the lives of jewish students
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
Advancement of the Jewish Community
The atlanta jewish life foundation inc. was founded to promote community engagement and education of jewish life in the southeast. the foundation supports the local jewish newspaper which is a service to the jewish community and supports…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds MACON CIVIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Next Step Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TENNIS PATRONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zarks Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zarks Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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