· Private foundation
Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SELIS FAMILY FUND AT SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $877,070 |
| ROBBINS FAMILY FUND AT FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $877,070 |
| ARTS ANGELS | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER OF NYACK | $12,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GULF COAST | $5,000 |
| ROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ALMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| FORMAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,300 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| US ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BERKELEY ANIMAL CARE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| JCC EAST BAY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
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 FY2020, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +35%
- CCCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NYACK NEW YORK INC DBA NURSERY SCHOOL OF THE NYACKS3× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +10%
- MHMaybeck High School Inc3× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- AAARTS ANGELS co Susanna Willinghamone grant, 2018 · $12k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW CENTRAL FLone grant, 2018 · $7k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND Sone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Chimneys Children's Service and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 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 ARTS ANGELS ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER OF NYACK NEW YORK INC DBA NURSERY SCHOOL OF THE NYACKS ↗
- Who funds Maybeck High School Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARTSROCK OF ROCKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERKELEY ANIMAL CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Irving and Sara Selis 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.