Nevada · Private foundation
Zip Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $232k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $22,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Zip Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $222k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $180k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $71k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $238k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $83k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $66k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $56k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope | $69,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Homeboy Industries | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $43,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Bolsa Chica Land Trust | $38,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | $27,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Gaviota Coast Conservancy | $23,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Loaves and Fishes | $17,000 | 3 | 3% |
| St Francis High School | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($405k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zip 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: Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Seeding Justice · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Sempra Foundation
How this is measured
About Zip Foundation
- How much does Zip Foundation give?
- Zip Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $232,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Zip Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (20%), Religion (14%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Zip Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope ($70k), Homeboy Industries ($58k), Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc ($44k).
- Does Zip Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zip 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 Zip Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, California Community Foundation, Seeding Justice.
- Where is Zip Foundation based?
- Zip Foundation is based in NV.
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