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Melvin H Seder Foundation

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.

$16k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$394k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Melvin H Seder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitAnimalsInternationalEducationCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$15k20%
FY20238$12k25%
FY20227$5k14%
FY202116$30k50%
FY20207$17k71%
FY201918$13k17%
FY201822$13k32%
FY201722$11kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$45kCivil Rights$19kPublic Benefit$15kInternational$13kEducation$9kReligion$9kAnimals$7kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melvin H Seder Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Animal Rescue: $3,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $3,352 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Academy: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTikvah-Etta and Lazear Israel Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNRA Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTax Foundation: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnreported Story Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Gratitude Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Individual Rights: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Teaching Economics: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJeffrey Foundation: $55 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMoving Picture Institute: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVested Interest in K9s Inc: $50 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 30.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Melvin H Seder Foundation

How much does Melvin H Seder Foundation give?
Melvin H Seder Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $16,352 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Melvin H Seder Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Civil Rights (15%), Public Benefit (12%).
Who are Melvin H Seder Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($30k), Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation ($7k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($5k).
Does Melvin H Seder Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Melvin H Seder Foundation 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 Melvin H Seder Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Melvin H Seder Foundation based?
Melvin H Seder Foundation is based in CA.

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 53 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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