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Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$419k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
39%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 38
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving38$419k18%
FY202431$324k39%
FY202327$228k19%
FY202223$178k30%
FY202138$213k55%
FY202022$137k32%
FY201921$150k43%
FY201818$103k44%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$376kEducation$337kHuman Services$268kReligion$168kHousing & Shelter$118kFood & Nutrition$93kCrime & Legal$80kYouth Development$75kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($984k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThomas More University Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDiocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc: $96,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFaith Community Pharmacy Inc: $82,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMilestones Inc: $72,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUpspring: $53,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc: $50,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetInterchurch Organization Inc: $36,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center: $30,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pointarc of Northern Kentucky: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLife Learning Center Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlice Lloyd College: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Car Care Clinic: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Council of Louisville Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTri-State Bleeding Disorder Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCovington Ladies Home Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMentoring Plus Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaster Provisions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReviv Family Support Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNew Perceptions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe First Step Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Day Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Central Ky Kids on the Block Inc: $2,712 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBe Concerned Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCovington Partners Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIon Center for Violence Prevention Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Grove Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500KY51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Butler Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Duke Energy Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc

How much does Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc give?
Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $418,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Education (18%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thomas More University Inc ($100k), Diocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc ($96k), Faith Community Pharmacy Inc ($83k).
Does Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc based?
Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc is based in KY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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