Connecticut · Private foundation
Zimmel Family Foundation
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.
- $999k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Zimmel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 14 | $939k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $815k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.1M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $241k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $132k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $378k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $632k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $753k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown University | $1,210,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Public Radio Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc | $460,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Education Foundation of Eagle Cnty | $300,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Norwalk Community College Foundation Inc | $256,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for the Arts Evergreen Inc | $135,000 | 3 | 3% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kids in Crisis Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zimmel Family Foundation 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · S & L Marx Foundation · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Zimmel Family Foundation
- How much does Zimmel Family Foundation give?
- Zimmel Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $999,357 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zimmel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (13%).
- Who are Zimmel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($1.2M), National Public Radio Inc ($500k), National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc ($460k).
- Does Zimmel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zimmel Family 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 Zimmel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Zimmel Family Foundation based?
- Zimmel Family Foundation is based in CT.
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