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Zeigler Family Foundation

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.

$576k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$251,149
Organizations funded a year
10 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Zeigler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$576k18%
FY202419$866k21%
FY202319$182k32%
FY202216$2.1M25%
FY202113$211k15%
FY202011$107k36%
FY201910$136k20%
FY201810$145k40%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.0MYouth Development$1.0MHuman Services$816kHealth$569kReligion$51kFood & Nutrition$45kArts & Culture$11kInternational$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($211k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Zeigler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Bloomsburg University Foundationinc: $1,612,314 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania: $851,525 over 9y, 19% of budgetMitzvah Circle Foundation: $667,316 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetSt Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa: $401,197 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $253,149 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQuakertown Cares: $142,500 over 9y, 39% of budgetRspa Scholarship Fund Inc: $62,750 over 9y, 65% of budgetFoundation for Free Enterprise Education: $29,190 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDunedin Cares Inc: $24,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFoundation for Pottstown Education: $21,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBean Bag Food Program: $19,740 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetPillars of Light and Love: $16,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRuth Eckerd Hall Inc: $11,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFinancial Scholars Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHarleysville Community Fire Company: $2,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Bread Community Food Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: $619 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrumbauersville Fire Company No 1: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQuakertown Alive: $240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Chester University Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc: $109 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Penn Community Bank Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Aetna Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Zeigler Family Foundation

How much does Zeigler Family Foundation give?
Zeigler Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $576,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Zeigler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Youth Development (22%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Zeigler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Bloomsburg University Foundationinc ($1.6M), Junior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania ($852k), Mitzvah Circle Foundation ($667k).
Does Zeigler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zeigler Family Foundation 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 Zeigler Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Penn Community Bank Foundation.
Where is Zeigler Family Foundation based?
Zeigler Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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