· Private foundation
Lucian and Susan Seifert Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Childrens Hospital LA | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| AFMDA | $40,000 |
| Cedars Sinai | $38,000 |
| Holocaust Museum LA | $35,000 |
| TUNNEL OF TOWERS FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| Operation Home Front | $12,000 |
| THE Fisher House | $12,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $10,000 |
| Friends of IDF | $10,000 |
| Tower Cancer Research Fdt | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $7,700 |
| Chabad of Bloomington | $6,600 |
| Will Geer Theatricum | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles3× · 2023–2025 · $160k · revenue +13%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA6× · 2020–2025 · $136k · revenue +62%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- LMLA MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUSTone grant, 2019 · $20k
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +39%- UKUSC Keck School of Medicineone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD KINGS OF BURBANK ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lucian and Susan Seifert Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucian and Susan Seifert Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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