Connecticut · Private foundation
Zieff Family Fund 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.
- $34k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,940
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $489k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Zieff Family Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $34k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $41k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $27k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $20k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $36k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield University | $24,940 | 3 | 0% |
| The Discovery Museum Inc | $24,750 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of Coastal Fairfield County Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The High School Scholarship Foundation of Fairfield | $1,700 | 3 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Allentown Rescue Mission Inc | $1,225 | 5 | 0% |
| Nourish Bridgeport Inc | $1,200 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Turning Point of Lehigh Valley Inc | $1,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $1,050 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zieff Family Fund Inc 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Estate of Benjamin B Lewis · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Tauck Family Foundation · The Huisking Foundation Inc · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Zieff Family Fund Inc
- How much does Zieff Family Fund Inc give?
- Zieff Family Fund Inc reported 39 grants totaling $34,163 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Zieff Family Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Religion (20%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Zieff Family Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Fairfield University ($25k), The Discovery Museum Inc ($25k), United Way of Coastal Fairfield County Inc ($15k).
- Does Zieff Family Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zieff Family Fund 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 Zieff Family Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Estate of Benjamin B Lewis.
- Where is Zieff Family Fund Inc based?
- Zieff Family Fund Inc is based in CT.
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