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Melvin H Seder Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$394k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$2,352
THE PFAP FOUNDATION$1,000
THE MUSIC CENTER$1,000
CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL$1,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $55) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $15 → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $15 → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $15 → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $10 → 14%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

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 24 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
24

Total granted

$94k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+47%

Still filing today

58%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitInternationalEducationCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +172%
  • HJ
    Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation
    5× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +44%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -45%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +52%
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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
5
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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6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
10
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Animal Rescue. 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

36 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. 36 of the 53 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $19,000 · OtherHOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTERCHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL: $8,000 · OtherCHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAELTHE MUSIC CENTER: $8,000 · OtherTHE MUSIC CENTERPATRICK BURKE FOUNDATION: $2,750 · Other+24 more: $16,235 · Other+24 moreLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOC…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC+2 more: $300 · Arts & CultureHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $7,000 · Public BenefitHoward Jarv…Leadership Institute: $3,000 · Public BenefitLeadership …JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,750 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WA…TAX FOUNDATION: $850 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDAT…+1 more: $250 · Public BenefitJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH NAT…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,352 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVI…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,350 · InternationalISRAEL EME…+1 more: $250 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,090 · EducationThe Good Shepherd Academy: $1,250 · EducationEdChoice Inc: $950 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $750 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationLA ANIMAL RESCUE: $3,800 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals+2 more: $200 · AnimalsNRA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation: $750 · Crime & Legal
Other$53,985Arts & Culture$35,300Public Benefit$12,850International$12,452Education$8,540Animals$5,000Crime & Legal$1,750

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 budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,090 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetLeadership Institute: $3,000 over 3y, 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $750 over 2y, 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
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Melvin H Seder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin H Seder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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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