New York · Private foundation
Zayas Foundation Inc
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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $219k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations Zayas Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 8 | $11k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $23k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $818k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.2M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $35k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| For the Gworls Inc | $1,814,630 | 2 | n/a |
| Trans Formative Schools Inc | $187,532 | 2 | n/a |
| Children International | $9,531 | 5 | 0% |
| Akbar Pray Foundation for Change Inc | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Gift Locally Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Xcel Strategies Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Embracing Mothers Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nextgen Scholars for Change | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Single Parent Resource Center Inc | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,087 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| For the Gworls Inc | $1,814,630 | 2 | n/a |
| Trans Formative Schools Inc | $187,532 | 2 | n/a |
| Children International | $9,531 | 5 | 0% |
| Akbar Pray Foundation for Change Inc | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Gift Locally Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Xcel Strategies Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Embracing Mothers Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nextgen Scholars for Change | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Single Parent Resource Center Inc | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,087 | 4 | 0% |
| By All Means Leadership Alliance Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Smile Inc | $610 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $340 | 2 | 0% |
| Keatons Kids Inc | $313 | 1 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Rapid Benefits Group Fund Inc | $208 | 1 | n/a |
| Ment Ltd | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| No One Left Behind | $106 | 1 | n/a |
| American Liver Foundation | $52 | 1 | 0% |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $25 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zayas Foundation Inc 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Zayas Foundation Inc
- How much does Zayas Foundation Inc give?
- Zayas Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $11,223 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Zayas Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (85%), Education (11%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are Zayas Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: For the Gworls Inc ($1.8M), Trans Formative Schools Inc ($188k), Children International ($10k).
- Does Zayas Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zayas Foundation Inc 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 Zayas Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Zayas Foundation Inc based?
- Zayas Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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