California · Private foundation
Zendesk Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2022
- 79
- Grants FY2022
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of Zendesk Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Zendesk Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 31 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 74
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 10
- Total assets, FY2022
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 42% of the organizations Zendesk Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 71 | $2.6M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $3.8M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $3.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $1.0M | 20% |
| FY2017 | 74 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,294,953 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $809,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Urban League Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $460,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Glide Foundation | $414,266 | 6 | n/a |
| Team4tech Foundation | $381,574 | 2 | 12% |
| The Asia Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Curry Senior Center | $260,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zendesk Charitable 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: Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · McNabb Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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About Zendesk Charitable Foundation
- How much does Zendesk Charitable Foundation give?
- Zendesk Charitable Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $2,632,148 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Zendesk Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Community Improvement (11%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Zendesk Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: International Rescue Committee INC ($1.3M), World Central Kitchen Inc ($809k), National Urban League Inc ($500k).
- Does Zendesk Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zendesk Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zendesk Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, The Evjue Foundation Inc, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc.
- Where is Zendesk Charitable Foundation based?
- Zendesk Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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