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Seder Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad, charitable, educational or religious purpose or functions as authorized by the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the by-laws of the foundation.

$259k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Philanthropy$769kEducation$259kScience & Tech$150kHuman Services$143kYouth Development$105kCrime & Legal$45kReligion$18kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $218,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $258,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $164k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO$60,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$54,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC$44,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $193k) 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 Night Ministry: $7k → 14%Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center: $30k → 17%Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center: $6k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $60k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $45k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$838k · 7 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$838k
$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionCrime & 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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $467k · revenue +33%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +2%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $55k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue +64%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue +9%
  • JC
    Jewish Child and Family Services
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +12%
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
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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5
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
The Board of Jewish Education

To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.

Education
10
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
11
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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12
The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation

The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

21 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. 21 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $467,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $68,833 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON …MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $52,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…Trustees of Tufts College: $59,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts C…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $54,667 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSI…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCO…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMO…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $60,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE…Jewish Child and Family Services: $45,000 · Human ServicesJewish Child a…NEW MOMS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INCTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $36,150 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY AND …THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $7,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $181,000 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERAT…HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 · ReligionSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF C…BUILD INC: $45,000 · OtherCHICAGO ABORTION FUND: $15,000 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $10,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL: $8,000 · OtherLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $45,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$587,833Education$258,667Human Services$193,150Religion$191,000Arts & Culture$160,000Other$78,000Crime & Legal$45,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $467,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $181,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $68,833 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $59,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $54,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $52,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUILD INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $36,150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Seder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Seder Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Seder Family 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 22 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 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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