· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $251,149 |
| PA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN PA | $50,000 |
| MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION | $29,190 |
| QUAKERTOWN CARES | $20,000 |
| PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE | $15,200 |
| PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| BEAN BAG FOOD PROGRAM | $8,740 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WORTHWHILE WEAR | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| RSPA SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RUTH ECKERD HALL | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $834k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of Zeigler Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 84%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +24%
- JAJunior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania9× · 2017–2025 · $852k · revenue +95%
- MCMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $667k · revenue +450%
Funded once
- SLST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $401k · revenue +26%
- SLST LUKE'S UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $150k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +74%
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.
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As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 37 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 THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUAKERTOWN CARES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RSPA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Dunedin Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BEAN BAG FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE ↗
- Who funds RUTH ECKERD HALL INC ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WORTHWHILE WEAR INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEYSVILLE COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUMBAUERSVILLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds QUAKERTOWN ALIVE ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zeigler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zeigler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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