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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
20
Organizations funded FY2020
75%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$2,300
Largest grant, FY2020
$877,070
Organizations funded a year
20 to 22
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 75% of the organizations Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20
HealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalAnimalsHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202020$1.8M75%
FY201820$80k25%
FY201722$80kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$1.8MArts & Culture$74kEducation$64kHealth$34kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$6kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Center of Nyack New York Inc Dba Nursery School of the Nyacks: $21,800 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetMaybeck High School Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRockland County Pride Center Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Friends of Green Chimneys: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOccidental College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKenyon College: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtsrock of Rockland Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFordham University: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Chimneys Children's Service: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Berkeley Animal Care Services: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association of Blind Athletes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Center of the East Bay: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterlochen Center for the Arts: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc

How much does Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc give?
Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $1,819,140 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (89%), Arts & Culture (4%), Education (3%).
Who are Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Arts Angels ($31k), Manhattan Theatre Club Inc ($25k), Community Center of Nyack New York Inc Dba Nursery School of the Nyacks ($22k).
Does Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Network for Good.
Where is Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc based?
Irving and Sara Selis Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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