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Howard J Sedran Family Foundation at a glance

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Howard J Sedran Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$138kEducation$122kInternational$110kHealth$77kEnvironment$38kReligion$33kFood & Nutrition$14kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$3,000
PHILADELPHIA BALLET$3,000
GREENPEACE$2,000
PENN ENVIRONMENT$1,500
FRIENDS LAUREL HILL$1,000
JCFS$1,000
FREE LIBRARY FUND$300
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JFCS: $500 → 22%JFCS: $500 → 22%JFCS: $500 → 22%JFCS: $250 → 22%JFCS: $250 → 22%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 22%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

WA
MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
AR
DC
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 53 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
22

Total granted

$540k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+3%

Still filing today

74%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WHYY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +20%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +15%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -40%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
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
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
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
7
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
8
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
11
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennenvironment Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Spring Garden School. 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

46 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. 46 of the 77 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
35/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT: $51,000 · OtherJEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANC…SOCIETY HILL SYNAGOGUE: $32,000 · OtherSOCIETY HILL SYNAGOGUEPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $16,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODNATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH: $10,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW: $8,000 · OtherGREENPEACE INC: $8,000 · OtherST PETER'S SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNIVERSITY ANNUAL GIVING FUND: $7,000 · Other+31 more: $52,530 · Other+31 moreWHYY INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCPHILA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS: $20,400 · Arts & CulturePHILA SOCIETY FOR THE …PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $15,894 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA…THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLE…+10 more: $17,490 · Arts & Culture+10 moreUnited States Association for UNHCR: $29,500 · InternationalUnited States Associ…Save The Children Federation Inc: $19,000 · InternationalSave The Children Fe…HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $17,850 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTER…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $8,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFE…BARNARD COLLEGE: $14,000 · EducationBARNARD COLL…SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $3,400 · EducationSPRINGSIDE C…THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,350 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $2,750 · Education+2 more: $2,100 · EducationMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,000 · HealthMAGEE REHA…American Heart Association Inc: $11,500 · HealthAmerican H…LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $5,500 · HealthLIVING BEY…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $11,500 · EnvironmentClean Air Council: $5,250 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,750 · EnvironmentPhilabundance: $13,650 · Food & Nutrition
Other$199,530Arts & Culture$114,284International$104,100Education$63,600Health$50,000Environment$19,500Food & Nutrition$13,650

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 budgetWHYY INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $29,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPHILA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS: $20,400 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $17,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $15,894 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $13,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $8,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST PETER'S SCHOOL: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER ACTION: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetClean Air Council: $5,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPENNENVIRONMENT INC: $5,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $3,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $2,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $1,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $1,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST PETER'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER ACTION ↗
  • Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
  • Who funds Clean Air Council ↗
  • Who funds PENNENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗

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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…William B Dietrich Fo…Performing Arts Found…The Forst FoundationThe Philadelphia Cult…Connelly FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…
The William Penn FoundationPA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · William B Dietrich Foundation · Performing Arts Foundation · The Forst Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Connelly Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Howard J Sedran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard J Sedran Family 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 77 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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