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Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation at a glance

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Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation

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.

$610k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

89% of Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Northern New Jersey Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$1.1MPhilanthropy$639kHuman Services$223kHealth$223kInternational$10kEducation$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Federation of Northern NJ$250,000
American Technion Society$215,164
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest$75,000
JCC MetroWest$30,000
Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled$20,000
The Arnold P Gold Foundation$10,000
Sandra & Arnold Gold Humanism Research Fund$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JCC MetroWest: $67k → 16%JCC MetroWest: $30k → 16%JCC MetroWest: $30k → 16%JCC MetroWest: $30k → 16%JCC MetroWest: $30k → 16%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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$381k · 4 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$381k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+56%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $187k · revenue +80%
  • JS
    Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k
  • JH
    Jewish Home Foundation
    3× · 2019–2021 · $66k

Funded once

  • EH
    ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +56%
  • SS
    Sinai Schools
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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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University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic
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3
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
4
Jewish Endowment Foundation

The jewish endowment foundation of louisiana (jef), chartered in 1967, ensures a secure future and an enduring legacy by serving as an essential resource for jewish and non-jewish philanthropy.

Philanthropy
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Goldstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
8
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
9
Sherit Isroel
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10
Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey

The jewish federation of southern new jersey cares for those in need, enhances jewish life and ensures the continuity of a vibrant jewish community locally, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
11
Jewish Life Foundation
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12
Abraham & Florence Mendel Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,335,366 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TEC…+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $849,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY IN…ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUND…Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Foundation of Greater Metr…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $187,000 · Human ServicesJewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled: $100,000 · OtherJewish Home Foundation: $66,333 · OtherTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $1,800 · OtherTHE SANDRA AND ARNOLD GOLD HUMANISM RESEARCH FUND INC: $28,000 · Health
International$1,345,366Philanthropy$1,089,000Human Services$187,000Other$178,133Health$28,000

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 budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,335,366 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $849,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $187,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANDRA AND ARNOLD GOLD HUMANISM RESEARCH FUND INC: $28,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Norman and Barbara Seiden Foundation 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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