· Private foundation
Zelazo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $21,360 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST | $20,400 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| SCHOOL FOR CHILD WHIDDEN INTELLIG | $5,000 |
| AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NJ | $3,360 |
| TEMPLE BETH RISHON | $3,050 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN | $2,078 |
| AMER FRIENDS OF OPEN U OF ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| VARIOUS UNDER 500 EACH | $1,823 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INST OF N AMERICA | $1,550 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| AMER FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS | $1,500 |
| ACADEMY OF JEWISH RELIGION | $1,365 |
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 96% 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
- TATHE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION3× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +67%
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +7%- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History3× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICYone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -13%
- SFSchool for Child WHidden Intone grant, 2021 · $5k
DISCOVERY WORLD LTDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +109%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 34 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 ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NESHAMA- ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH CHAPLAINS (NAJC) ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Global Taiwan Institute ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zelazo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zelazo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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