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Zickler 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.

$221k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Itemized grants FY2024
36
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$216k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 41
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Zickler Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$216k16%
FY202336$335k44%
FY202241$559kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MHealth$476kArts & Culture$206kEducation$203kHuman Services$89kFood & Nutrition$48kCivil Rights$22kInternational$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Zickler Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$269,00021%
Usagainstalzheimer's$195,00021%
Rutgers University Foundation$150,00020%
Baker Senior Center Naples Inc$80,00012%
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc$55,00031%
The Wallace Center for Arts And$39,00026%
Johns Hopkins University$25,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20,00020%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Sidwell Friends School$20,0002n/a
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$15,00030%
The Defiant Requiem Foundation$11,00011%
Signature Theatre Inc$10,00020%
The Studio Theatre Inc$10,00020%
Round House Theatre Inc$10,00010%
Capital Area Food Bank Inc$10,00020%
Levine Music Inc$10,00020%
A Wider Circle Inc$7,50030%
The Bettie Jane Cancer Foundation Inc$6,00024%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc$6,00030%
Bread for the City Inc$6,00030%
Gulfshore Playhouse Inc$5,00020%
The Shakespeare Theatre$5,00010%
Some Inc$5,00020%
Capital Area Food Bank Foundation$5,00010%
Food & Friends Inc$3,50020%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$3,00020%
Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc$3,00030%
Friendship Place$3,00030%
United Communities Against Poverty Inc$3,00020%
Children's Inn at Nih Inc$3,00030%
The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc$3,00030%
House of Ruth Inc$2,50010%
The Alliance for Climate Protection$2,50010%
Hoping Hearts Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$2,00020%
Reproductive Freedom for All$1,50010%
SPCA & Humane Society of Prince Georges County$1,5001n/a
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$1,50020%
Mpt Foundation Inc$1,00020%
National Public Radio Inc$1,00010%
American University$1,00010%
House of Ruth$1,00010%
Jewish Social Service Agency$1,00020%
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Inc$40020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($74k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zickler Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $269,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUsagainstalzheimer's: $195,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaker Senior Center Naples Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Wallace Center for Arts And: $39,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStony Brook Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSignature Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRound House Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCapital Area Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLevine Music Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Wider Circle Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bettie Jane Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetThe DC Central Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the City Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGulfshore Playhouse Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shakespeare Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSome Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Area Food Bank Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood & Friends Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Communities Against Poverty Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Inn at Nih Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Ruth Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoping Hearts Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMpt Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Ruth: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Social Service Agency: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Nora Roberts Foundation · David S Shrager Foundation · Bernard Family Foundation · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Adler Family Foundation 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.

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About Zickler Family Foundation Inc

How much does Zickler Family Foundation Inc give?
Zickler Family Foundation Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $215,700, out of $220,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 41 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Zickler Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (6%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Zickler Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation ($269k), Usagainstalzheimer's ($195k), Rutgers University Foundation ($150k).
Does Zickler Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zickler 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 Zickler Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
Where is Zickler Family Foundation Inc based?
Zickler Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $424k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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