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Mike & Sofia Segal Foundation at a glance

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Mike & Sofia Segal 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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$14MInternational$3.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MArts & Culture$3.3MEducation$2.9MCivil Rights$1.4MEnvironment$1.1MHousing & Shelter$713kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+14 grants · $11M
$200,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$3,500,000
EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY$1,406,108
HETREODOX ACADEMY$1,000,000
MOFFITT CANCER AND RESEARCH$600,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY$600,000
JIGSAW EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS$541,780
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALUMOT OR$529,500
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$500,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$400,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$400,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$400,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT$300,000
THE NEW JEWISH HOME$300,000
CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE$250,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION$200,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $30k → 14%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $15k → 14%FUND FOR THE AGED: $30k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $25k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%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
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
KS
AR
SC
DC
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 34 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
15

Total granted

$26M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+31%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +39%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +105%
  • TH
    THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +16%
  • SE
    SEIU EMPLOYER CHILD CARE CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $400k
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
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
6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
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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8
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
9
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is Jigsaw Educational Productions Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 67 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,900,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY: $2,812,216 · HealthEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETYDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500,000 · Health+3 more: $236,000 · HealthTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATIONWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $1,000,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEMOFFITT CANCER AND RESEARCH: $901,655 · OtherMOFFITT CANCER AND RESEARCHTHE NEW JEWISH HOME: $713,464 · OtherTHE NEW JEWISH HOMEWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $650,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALUMOT OR: $629,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALUMOT ORCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY: $600,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - CENTER ON GLOB…BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $510,000 · OtherSEIU EMPLOYER CHILD CARE CORP: $400,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH SOLDIER MUSEUM: $350,000 · OtherSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Other+29 more: $2,776,344 · Other+29 moreWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $2,497,500 · InternationalWASHINGTON I…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISR…FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $425,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF I…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $1,641,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …Jigsaw Educational Productions Inc: $541,780 · Arts & CultureJigsaw Ed…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $285,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN …BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $144,200 · Arts & CultureBALLET TH…+1 more: $22,000 · Arts & CultureHETERODOX ACADEMY: $1,050,000 · EducationHETERODOX…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $600,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $450,000 · EducationICAHN SCH…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 · EducationMassachus…+3 more: $122,000 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $350,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $125,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 · Public Benefit
Health$10,448,216Other$10,180,963International$3,347,500Arts & Culture$2,633,980Education$2,622,000Philanthropy$1,830,000Public Benefit$250,000

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 budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,900,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY: $2,812,216 over 2y, 28% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $2,497,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $1,641,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $1,050,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $425,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $285,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $144,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDIGESTIVE DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $105,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $72,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN AGE INSTITUTE: $45,600 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUND FOR THE AGED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVANCING ISRAEL EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $5,000 over 2y, 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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Fede…The Jewish Federation…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…
Jewish Communal FundNY21.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Mike & Sofia Segal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike & Sofia Segal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 67 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home