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Hari Seldon Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,230
Largest grant, FY2021
$1,230
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Hari Seldon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$1k0%
FY202010$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$14kPublic Benefit$2kArts & Culture$2kCivil Rights$1kReligion$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Humanist Mutual Aid Network$2,23021%
School of Visual Philosophy Inc$1,0231n/a
Center for Inquiry Inc$1,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

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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 Hari Seldon Foundation

How much does Hari Seldon Foundation give?
Hari Seldon Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,230 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Hari Seldon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Public Benefit (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Hari Seldon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Humanist Mutual Aid Network ($2k), School of Visual Philosophy Inc ($1k), Center for Inquiry Inc ($1k).
Does Hari Seldon Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hari Seldon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Hari Seldon Foundation based?
Hari Seldon Foundation is based in CA.

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 10 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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