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Segal Family Foundation at a glance

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Segal Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2018
6
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2018.

Education$3kHealth$190Recreation & Sports$100Arts & Culture$50
02FY2018 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Buffalo$1,000
Swarthmore College$300
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$100
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation$50
University of Rochester$50
Central Park Conservancy$25
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Brandeis University: $500 → 8%Dana Farber Cancer Institute: $100 → 16%Swarthmore College: $300 → 10%University of Buffalo: $1k → 13%University of Rochester: $50 → 14%Central Park Conservancy: $75 → 17%University of Buffalo: $1k → 13%University of Rochester: $50 → 14%Central Park Conservancy: $25 → 17%New York County Medical Society: $20 → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $50 → 17%Brain & Behavior Research Foundation: $50 → 17%St Jude's Research Hospital: $20 → 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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2k · 3 repeat orgs$540 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$2k
$90

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+58%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • UO
    University of Buffalo
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100 · revenue +81%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100 · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50 · revenue +58%
  • SJ
    St Jude's Research Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · $20
  • NY
    NEW YORK COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $20 · revenue -13%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brandeis University; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Buffalo: $2,000 · OtherUniversity of Buffalo+3 more: $90 · OtherBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $300 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 · HealthCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 · Recreation & SportsMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,090Education$900Health$100Recreation & Sports$100Arts & Culture$50

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 budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20 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 Segal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Segal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 10 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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