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.

Zenkel Foundation

Zenkel Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.5MEducation$330kArts & Culture$239kPhilanthropy$159kYouth Development$97kReligion$81kRecreation & Sports$48kHuman Services$48kOther$0

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $42k
$10k–50k6 grants · $137k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$4,540

Median grant

States reached

$4.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN	$50,000
THE RYE ARTS CENTER	$33,500
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	$25,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$25,000
WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE	$22,501
SCOPE	$16,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK	$15,000
HAMMER MUSEUM	$7,500
VISIONARY WOMEN	$5,000
UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC	$5,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART	$5,000
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE	$4,540
AMHERST COLLEGE	$3,000
AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION	$2,500
COLLETON RIVER FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 48 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+30%

Still filing today

79%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UO
University of Michigan
8× · 2017–2024 · $383k · revenue +202% · 29% of their budget
SC
SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +245%
UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +39%

Funded once

WE
WILMER EYE INSTITUTE - THE JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL
one grant, 2022 · $3.0M
MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $32k
DM
DUNLEVY MILLBANK COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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 Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hughie & Selma Black Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 113 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

73/75

Grantees still filing

56/75

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,067,261Arts & Culture$219,470Philanthropy$107,303Youth Development$96,040Education$71,500Health$62,750Civil Rights$31,250

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zenkel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zenkel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home