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Richard B Siegel 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.

$590k
Granted FY2017
31
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$123k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$143kArts & Culture$130kYouth Development$55kHuman Services$41kPhilanthropy$41kCrime & Legal$37kHousing & Shelter$35kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2017 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k11 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $413k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
$12,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CSU NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION$123,000
SINGERS COMPANYE$42,000
HILLSBORO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$41,000
PUBLIC COUNSEL$30,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORP$30,000
FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS$30,000
TAOS CNTY ECONOMIC DEV CORP$28,000
PORTLAND GAY MENS CHORUS$25,000
HISPANIC FEDERATION$25,000
TAOS YOUTH HEARTLINE$20,000
THE HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
IWMF$20,000
YMCA OF METRO LA NORTH VLLY$20,000
TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC GROUP$15,000
TAOS COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $40k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LUCIENTE: $10k → 18%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Taos Arts Council

Promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all creative arts in Taos County and the northern NM area.

Unclassified
2
The Paseo Project Inc

The PASEO Projects mission is to transform art through community and community through art. The PASEO Project lives at the center of three primary values: Art, Education, and Community. The PASEO Projects community is both local and…

Arts & Culture
3
Taos County Chamber of Commerce

The taos chamber of commerce exists to cultivate and sustain a healthy business environment.

4
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
5
Santa Fe Jazz Foundation Inc
6
Taos Onstage

To provide for the public good by offering access to cultural events increasing public knowledge and appreciation of live theatre and promoting education in the theatre arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Taos Housing Partnership

To create equitable housing opportunities for our community while preserving our culture, promoting financial literacy, and protecting our environment.

Housing & Shelter
8
Santa Fe Concert Association dba Performance Santa Fe

Performance Santa Fe (PSF) was dedicated to support performing arts by bringing world-class performing artists to Santa Fe and provided excellent arts education to the youth in the community.

9
Taos Art Museum

The Organization engages and inspires its national and international visitors, diverse local communities, and fellow institutions through historic preservation and interpretation of the Fechin House, studio and gardens; rich, relevant…

10
Taos Pueblo Foundation

Taos Pueblo community Support

Community Improvement
11
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
12
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Taos and the most unlike its peers is Singers Companye. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%50%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%50%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
1/20
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,958

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CSU NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $123,000 · OtherCSU NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONTHE HILLSBORO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $41,000 · OtherTHE HILLSBORO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORP — $30,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPTAOS CNTY ECONOMIC DEV CORP — $28,000 · OtherTAOS CNTY ECONOMIC DEV CORPPORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS — $25,000 · OtherPORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUSYMCA OF METRO LA NORTH VLLY — $20,000 · OtherTAOS YOUTH HEARTLINE — $20,000 · OtherTHE HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 · Other+11 more — $68,400 · Other+11 moreSINGERS COMPANYE — $42,000 · Arts & CultureSINGERS COMPA…TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC GROUP — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTAOS CHAMBER …TAOS JAZZ BEBOP SOCIETY INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTAOS JAZZ BEB…VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION — $5,110 · Arts & CultureVALLEY ART AS…FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $30,000 · Human ServicesLUCIENTE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC COUNSEL — $30,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICA SCORES — $5,000 · Crime & LegalHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTaos Coalition To End Homelessness Inc — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHEART OF TAOS — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Health
Other$375,400Arts & Culture$69,610Human Services$40,000Crime & Legal$35,000Community Improvement$25,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Health$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSINGERS COMPANYE — $42,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTaos Coalition To End Homelessness Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHillsboro Schools Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHEART OF TAOS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTaos Center for the Arts — $5,400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of the Taos Public Library — $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Taos Community Foundation IncNM13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Taos Community Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Richard B Siegel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Portland Gay Men's Chorus1% of income from government
  • Financial Beginnings1% 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Richard B Siegel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard B Siegel 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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