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Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

9
’17
7
’18
6
’19
9
’20
0
’21
1
’22
3
’23
6
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.9MEnvironment$420kArts & Culture$169kCommunity Improvement$150kEducation$57kInternational$57kHealth$30kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$25,000
MULTIPLIER$20,000
KARUK TRIBAL WILDLIFE PROGRAM$15,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$15,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK$15,000
GREYSTON FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE - HELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EFFECTS$10,000
ROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES$10,000
KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL$10,000
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DIGNITY VILLAGE: $10k → 12%SIMPLY SMILES: $5k → 9%ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
NM
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$753k · 14 repeat orgs$677k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$753k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +7%
  • MULTIPLIER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +91%
  • WM
    WASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +519%

Funded once

  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +123%
  • BA
    BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -33%
  • GE
    GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +593%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Cdp North America Inc

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
5
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
World Resources Institute

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,537,000 · PhilanthropyTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $411,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTIDES FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropyNFS FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherNFS FIDELITY CHARITABLE …NC LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $150,000 · OtherNC LEAGUE OF CONSERVATIO…GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK: $50,000 · OtherGRAND TETON NATIONAL PAR…SHIFT: $40,000 · OtherHOPE - HELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EFFECTS: $31,500 · Other+14 more: $157,000 · Other+14 moreB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER: $65,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $118,131 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $13,500 · Arts & CultureFREMONT ARTS COUNCIL: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationWASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES: $25,000 · AnimalsInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 · InternationalCYCLE CONNECT INC: $10,000 · International
Philanthropy$2,488,000Other$828,500Environment$280,000Arts & Culture$169,131Education$72,000Animals$25,000International$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,537,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $411,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $118,131 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHIFT: $40,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $13,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCYCLE CONNECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GRO INC D/B/A HOPE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPLY SMILES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Branch School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Triangle Community Fo…The Vermont Community…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope: 18% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Esther and Otto Seligmann 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.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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