· Private foundation
Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Triangle Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $136k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $20,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK | $15,000 |
| KARUK TRIBAL WILDLIFE PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL | $10,000 |
| GREYSTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOPE - HELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EFFECTS | $10,000 |
| ROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
MULTIPLIER4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +91%- WMWASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +519%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +140%
Funded once
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +123%- BABAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -33%
- GEGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +593%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dignity Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds SHIFT ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds DAR A LUZ BIRTH & HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL ↗
- Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREMONT ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GRO INC D/B/A HOPE ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY SMILES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope — 18% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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