· Private foundation
J J 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRONDALE PRODUCTIONS INC | $15,000 |
| NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC | $6,500 |
| WOMENNC NC COMMITTEE FOR CSWCEDAW | $6,000 |
| GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC | $5,275 |
| USA FOR UNFPA INC | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $3,500 |
| NEW PLAZA CINEMA INC | $3,000 |
| RISE AGAINST HUNGER | $3,000 |
| NEW PLAZA CINEMA INC | $3,000 |
| THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE FAMILIES FO | $2,000 |
| UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR | $2,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $2,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC | $1,500 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- IPIrondale Productions Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +23%
RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +59%- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA4× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -51%
- TVTHE VOICES PROJECT USA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -89%
- ENEquality Now Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +59%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Object Relations Institute Training Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 78 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 Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW PLAZA CINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WomenNC-NC Committee for CSW-CEDAW ↗
- Who funds THE VOICES PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds USA FOR UNFPA INC ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds Object Relations Institute Training Foundation ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Boston Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust
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 J J Segal Foundation 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.
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