FundersNew Jersey

Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc

South Hackensack, NJ · EIN 20-4215473. Reported 103 grants totalling $417,904 to 83 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$417,904granted, 2021-2024
83organizations funded
17%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,073,786assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
49 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Ridgewood YMCARidgewood, NJ$17,500332024
Hackensack Meridian Health FoundationEdison, NJ$15,000222022
Center for Hope and Safety IncRochelle Park, NJ$13,000222023
Happiness Is CampingHardwick, NJ$11,000222023
Community Hope IncParsippany, NJ$10,000222022
Covenant HouseNewark, NJ$10,000112022
Eva's VillagePaterson, NJ$10,000222023
Gantner Avenue Elementary SchoolElmwood Park, NJ$10,000112022
OasisPaterson, NJ$10,000222024
Push to Walk a New Jersey Non-ProfitMontvale, NJ$10,000112024
West Bergen Mental Healthcare IncRidgewood, NJ$10,000222024
YcsHackensack, NJ$9,685112024
Moms Helping Moms FoundationWarren, NJ$9,500222024
Childrens Day Preschool and Family CenterPassiac, NJ$8,500112023
Community Scholarship Fund of TeaneckTeaneck, NJ$8,500222024
Care Plus FoundationParamus, NJ$8,000222023
Northern Nj Community FoundationHackensack, NJ$8,000332024
Evolve Pink IncFlemington, NJ$7,500112021
Foodbank of Monmouth & Ocean Counties IncNeptune, NJ$7,500112021
Social Service Association of RidgewoodRidgewood, NJ$7,500212021
Villanova UniversityVillanova, PA$7,500112021
Spectrum for Living DevelopmentRiver Vale, NJ$7,000222022
Emmanuel Cancer FoundationClark, NJ$6,000222024
180 Turning Lives AroundHazlet, NJ$5,000112024
Age Friendly TeaneckTeaneck, NJ$5,000112021
Bergen New Bridge MedicalParamus, NJ$5,000112022
Bergen Volunteer Medical InitiativeHacknsack, NJ$5,000112022
Boy Scouts of AmericaOakland, NJ$5,000112021
CASA of Passaic and Union CountiesWayne, NJ$5,000112024
Camp Acorn IncParamus, NJ$5,000112021
Childhood Cancer SocietyWall Township, NJ$5,000112024
Christian HealthWhyckoff, NJ$5,000112023
City ReliefClifton, NJ$5,000112024
Families for FamiliesWyckoff, NJ$5,000112024
Family PromiseRidgewood, NJ$5,000112022
Food Brigade IncParamus, NJ$5,000112022
Girl Scouts of Northern New JerseyRiverdale, NJ$5,000112023
Giving Hope NetworkSomerville, NJ$5,000112021
Healing the Children New JerseyHawthorne, NJ$5,000112024
Isles IncTrenton, NJ$5,000112024
Raritan Valley YMCAEast Brunswick, NJ$5,000112023
Rebuilding Together North JerseyRidgewood, NJ$5,000112024
Table to TableHasbrouck Heights, NJ$5,000112022
Teaneck Junior Football LeagueTeaneck, NJ$5,000112023
The Office of Concern Food Pantry at St CeciliaEnglewood, NJ$5,000112021
The Power 2 Inspire FoundationCloster, NJ$5,000112021
The Volunteer Center of Bergen CountyHackensack, NJ$5,000112022
Women's Rights Information CenterEnglewood, NJ$5,000112022
YWCA Northern New JerseyHackensack, NJ$5,000112024
Juvenile Education and Awarness ProjectPassaic, NJ$4,700112022
National Council of Jewish WomenLivingston, NJ$4,500222024
Center for Food ActionEnglewood, NJ$4,000112023
Jewish Family & Children's ServicesTeaneck, NJ$4,000112023
Main Street Business Alliance IncHackensack, NJ$4,000112023
Young LifePlainfield, NJ$4,000112023
Community Meals IncGlen Rock, NJ$3,500112024
Jersey City Fire FoundationJersey City, NJ$3,249222023
Let's Work for Good IncPiscataway, NJ$2,500112024
Life Raft GroupWayne, NJ$2,500112024
New Jersey Community Development CorporationPaterson, NJ$2,500112024
YWCA of Eastern Union CountyElizabeth, NJ$2,500112024
Boys & Girls Club of Paterson and PassaicPaterson, NJ$2,000112022
CumacPaterson, NJ$2,000112023
Congenital Heart Defect CoalitionButler, NJ$2,000112023
Cooley's Anemia Foundation IncNew York, NY$2,000222024
Felician UniversityRutherford, NJ$2,000112023
Habitat for Humanity of Greater NewarkNewark, NJ$2,000112022
Social Service AssociationRidgewood, NJ$2,000112022
Alliance for Morris County ParksMorristown, NJ$1,000112023
Flhs PcaFair Lawn, NJ$1,000112024
Friends of the HermitageHohokus, NJ$1,000112022
Hackensack Chapter of UnicoSouth Hackensack, NJ$1,000112021
Hackensack University Medical Center FoundationHackensack, NJ$1,000112021
Matthew Morris Memorial FundSouth Hackensack, NJ$1,000112024
Raphael's Life HouseElizabeth, NJ$1,000112024
Tenafly Nature CenterTenafly, NJ$1,000112022
Cristian Rivera FoundationEdgewater, NJ$750112024
Baking Memories 4 Kids IncValley Cottage, NY$500112023
One Plus One Equals FortyLyndhurst, NJ$300112024
Humc Foundation (joseph Riccardo)Hackensack, NJ$200112022
Linda J Masullo Scholarship FundHasbrouck Heights, NJ$200112022
Common Grant ApplicationSanta Monica, CA$170112022
Hackensack Meridian Children's HealthHackensack, NJ$150112022

17 of 83 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 17%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
18 grants
Education
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$102,000$5,000
202229$101,920$4,700
202325$101,249$4,000
202430$112,735$3,250

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Jersey
$408K
Pennsylvania
$8K
New York
$2K
California
$170

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2187, South Hackensack, NJ, 07606. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-4215473 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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