Kansas · Private foundation
Zimmerman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $202k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 53
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Zimmerman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $201k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $2.0M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas State University Foundation | $1,825,574 | 3 | 1% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $134,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rite of Passage Journeys | $75,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Ashby House Ltd | $26,057 | 3 | 8% |
| Salina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc | $17,114 | 3 | 1% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salina Education Foundation | $9,264 | 3 | 2% |
| Mark Arts Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Salina Rescue Mission Inc | $6,799 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zimmerman 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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Walker Family Foundation · Horejsi Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Zimmerman Family Foundation
- How much does Zimmerman Family Foundation give?
- Zimmerman Family Foundation reported 47 itemized grants totaling $202,357, out of $285,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 53 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Zimmerman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), Youth Development (3%), Religion (1%).
- Who are Zimmerman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Kansas State University Foundation ($1.8M), Kansas Wesleyan University ($134k), Rite of Passage Journeys ($75k).
- Does Zimmerman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zimmerman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zimmerman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, Smoot Charitable Foundation, Earl Bane Foundation.
- Where is Zimmerman Family Foundation based?
- Zimmerman Family Foundation is based in KS.
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