Missouri · Private foundation
Zollner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $557k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Zollner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 | 38 | $557k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $527k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $532k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $535k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $500k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $502k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $512k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $470k | 45% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trine University | $317,000 | 9 | 0% |
| YWCA Northeast Indiana Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne | $210,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $180,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Super Shot Inc | $160,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $155,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Indiana Institute of Technology Inc | $145,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Visiting Nurse & Hospice Home Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hearcare Connection Inc | $135,000 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($798k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Zollner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Zollner Foundation
- How much does Zollner Foundation give?
- Zollner Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $557,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zollner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (20%), Health (18%).
- Who are Zollner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trine University ($317k), YWCA Northeast Indiana Inc ($225k), Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne ($210k).
- Does Zollner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zollner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zollner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward M Wilson Foundation, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc.
- Where is Zollner Foundation based?
- Zollner Foundation is based in MO.
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