Delaware · Private foundation
Zhu 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.
- $373k
- Granted FY2021
- 11
- Grants FY2021
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Zhu Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Zhu Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $373k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 3
- Total assets, FY2021
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 29% of the organizations Zhu Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 7 | $293k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $198k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $52k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harker School | $181,148 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $128,000 | 8 | 1% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $105,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Concord Review Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Mathematics Foundation of America | $45,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Uc Santa Cruz Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gathering 4 Gardner Inc | $8,128 | 1 | 4% |
| We Are Together Svyo Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($596k), not named here.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Zhu Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Zhu Family Foundation Inc give?
- Zhu Family Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $372,500 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Zhu Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Science & Tech (7%), Health (4%).
- Who are Zhu Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Harker School ($181k), Center for Excellence in Education ($128k), University of California Santa Barbara ($105k).
- Does Zhu Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zhu 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 Zhu Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Zhu Family Foundation Inc based?
- Zhu Family Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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