New York · Private foundation
Zenkel 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.
- $229k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,540
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Zenkel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 22 | $229k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $246k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $3.3M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $178k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $218k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $165k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $181k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $129k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $382,500 | 8 | 29% |
| Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc | $92,970 | 8 | 3% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $92,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Rye Arts Center Inc | $53,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $38,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Film at Lincoln Center Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $26,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wnet | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Zenkel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Old Oaks Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Zenkel Foundation
- How much does Zenkel Foundation give?
- Zenkel Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $229,406 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Zenkel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (76%), Education (7%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Zenkel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($383k), Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc ($93k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($93k).
- Does Zenkel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zenkel Foundation 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 Zenkel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Old Oaks Foundation Inc.
- Where is Zenkel Foundation based?
- Zenkel Foundation is based in NY.
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