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Maxwell Sedel Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Maxwell Sedel Family Foundation Inc

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.

$842k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$544kCivil Rights$266kEducation$220kHealth$160kArts & Culture$73kEnvironment$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPhilanthropy$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $370k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE ISRAEL$250,000
KESHETORG$100,000
SHARSHERET$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100,000
7 LAKES ALLIANCE BELGRADE MAINE$70,000
EQUALITY FUND (BOSTON FOUNDATION)$25,000
THE JONAH MACCABEE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC$25,000
JOAN G LOVERING HEALTH CENTER$20,000
BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$15,000
QT LIBRARY (FRACTURED ATLAS)$10,870
UNION OF REFORM JUDAISM$10,000
RAINBOW RAILROAD USA$10,000
TREVOR PROJECT$10,000
JELF JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CHA FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%CAMP JABBERWOCKY: $5k → 8%EQUALITY FUND (BOSTON FOUNDATION): $25k → 16%ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $25k → 8%CONGREGATION BETH EMEK: $3k → 10%ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $25k → 14%QT LIBRARY (FRACTURED ATLAS): $11k → 9%RAINBOW RAILROAD USA: $10k → 17%HRC FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JELF JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $10k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $2k → 16%SHARSHERET: $100k → 7%JOAN G LOVERING HEALTH CENTER: $20k → 5%MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10k → 7%7 LAKES ALLIANCE BELGRADE MAINE: $70k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100k → 8%CAMP JABBERWOCKY: $2k → 8%WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE: $5k → 16%TREVOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%THE JONAH MACCABBEE FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 9%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%UNION OF REFORM JUDAISM: $10k → 14%SHARSHERET: $10k → 7%JOAN G LOVERING HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 5%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100k → 8%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $275k → 16%THE JONAH MACCABEE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 9%BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $15k → 8%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $250k → 16%BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $10k → 8%WGBH BOSTON: $3k → 16%TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA WAYLAND: $5k → 8%CAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS: $3k → 8%KESHETORG: $110k → 8%KESHETORG: $100k → 8%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
DC
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$1.0M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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

  • SI
    Sharsheret Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +13%
  • TF
    THE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +33%
  • BC
    Boston Chamber Music Society Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CH
    CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • LV
    LIVERMORE VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc

The jewish alliance for law and social action (jalsa), a massachusetts-based social justice organization, puts our jewish values into action by engaging the community in promoting civil rights and protecting civil liberties, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Healthquarters Inc

Healthq is committed to providing sexual and reproductive healthcare without judgment or barriers.

Health
4
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc

The mission of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. is the following: * To sustain and enrich the quality of Jewish life in the Greater Boston Jewish community by creating and enhancing a sense of common purpose. * To…

Philanthropy
5
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
6
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
The Jane Fund of Central Ma Corp

The Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts is dedicated to funding abortion and supporting bodily autonomy in Central Massachusetts and beyond.

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11
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants. 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

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 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL INCORPORATED: $525,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INCORPORATEDKESHETORG: $210,000 · OtherKESHETORG7 LAKES ALLIANCE BELGRADE MAINE: $70,000 · Other7 LAKES ALLIANCE BELGRADE MAINE+12 more: $126,612 · Other+12 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $200,000 · EducationMassachusetts I…Sharsheret Inc: $110,000 · HealthSharshere…CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCAMBRIDGE…Jonah Maccabee Foundation Inc: $60,000 · PhilanthropyRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,800 · PhilanthropyISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBoston Chamber Music Society Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsCAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS: $2,500 · International
Other$931,612Education$200,000Health$120,000Philanthropy$71,800Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Arts & Culture$37,500Civil Rights$20,000International$2,500

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJonah Maccabee Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBoston Chamber Music Society Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $7,060 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $5,182 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $1,800 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maxwell Sedel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxwell Sedel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Chamber Music Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Maxwell Sedel Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Maxwell Sedel Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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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