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Richard B Siegel Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (FY17–17, $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 its 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
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

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OR
OH
CA
CO
NM
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 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
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.

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4
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
5
Santa Fe Jazz Foundation Inc
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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.

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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…

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10
Taos Pueblo Foundation

Taos Pueblo community Support

Community Improvement
11
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Taos; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

The Taos Community Fo…The Oregon Community …Silicon Valley Commun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Richard B Siegel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard B Siegel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Portland Gay Men's Chorus: 1% of income from government
  • Financial Beginnings: 1% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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