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George & Helen Segal Foundation

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.

$250
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$898kEducation$26kSocial Science$3k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
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States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES: $108k → 11%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $47k → 17%THE ASPEN INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $219k → 11%PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI: $175k → 15%FREDERIK MEIJER GARDEN & SCULPTURE: $103k → 11%YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: $53k → 12%SNITE ART MUSEUM: $150k → 13%INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART: $30k → 16%SOUTH BRUNSWICK PUBLIC: $10k → 8%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $250 → 11%SOUTH BRUNSWICK PUBLIC: $3k → 8%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $250 → 11%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: $250 → 11%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

MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
DC
FL
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 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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $219,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ARTJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INCNewfields Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNewfields IncSNITE ART MUSEUM: $150,000 · OtherSNITE ART MUSEUMLEHIGH UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES: $108,400 · OtherLEHIGH UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIESFREDERIK MEIJER GARDEN & SCULPTURE: $102,500 · OtherFREDERIK MEIJER GARDEN & SCULPTUREIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherYale University: $53,000 · EducationYale UniversityThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $46,950 · EducationThe Pierpont Mo…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERS…+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$424,000Other$374,150Education$125,450Social Science$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $219,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYale University: $53,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $46,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNewfields Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George & Helen Segal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George & Helen Segal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 13 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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