New York · Private foundation
Zemsky Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $861k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $240,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Zemsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $825k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $532k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $551k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $555k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $272k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $116k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $134k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $149k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Fine Arts Academy | $377,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kaleida Health Foundation | $270,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Richardson Center Corporation | $150,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation | $120,000 | 3 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $115,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tourette Syndrome Association Inc | $107,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $106,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buffalo State College Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Valley Community Association Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($778k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zemsky Family Foundation 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Independent Health Association Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation
How this is measured
About Zemsky Family Foundation
- How much does Zemsky Family Foundation give?
- Zemsky Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $861,384 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Zemsky Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Zemsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy ($377k), Kaleida Health Foundation ($270k), Richardson Center Corporation ($150k).
- Does Zemsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zemsky Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zemsky Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, First Niagara Foundation, The Baird Foundation.
- Where is Zemsky Family Foundation based?
- Zemsky Family Foundation is based in NY.
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