Massachusetts · Private foundation
Zell Family 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.
- $140k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 81%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 81% of the organizations Zell Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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 | 21 | $140k | 81% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $108k | 81% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $114k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $107k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $92k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $77k | 87% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $60k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $60k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rise Up Industries | $56,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Give a Beat Foundation | $47,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Dismas House of Massachusetts Inc | $41,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation | $37,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Hias Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Motor City Mitten Mission | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Valley Community Development Corporation | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Avenues for Justice Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Alpha Project for the Homeless | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Housing Works | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zell Family 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seeding Justice · The Rose Hills Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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About Zell Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Zell Family Foundation Inc give?
- Zell Family Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $140,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zell Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (41%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Zell Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rise Up Industries ($56k), Give a Beat Foundation ($47k), Dismas House of Massachusetts Inc ($41k).
- Does Zell Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zell Family 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 Zell Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seeding Justice, The Rose Hills Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is Zell Family Foundation Inc based?
- Zell Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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