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Segal Family-United World Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$636k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.5MReligion$370kInternational$253kEnvironment$190kArts & Culture$167kSocial Science$133kHealth$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $485k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAND CORPORATION$110,000
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$100,000
AMER FRIENDS-NEVE SHALOM WAHAT AL SALAM$95,000
INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION$70,000
POMONA COLLEGE$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
PENCILS OF PROMISE$45,000
VISION TO LEARN$15,000
OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$15,000
SHOES THAT FIT$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
READY TO SUCCEED$10,000
UNITED RESCUE MISSION$10,000
THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
LAFD SCHOLARSHIP FUND$7,500
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $1k → 8%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $10k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 36 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
23

Total granted

$3.5M
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+36%

Still filing today

78%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +21%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +6%
  • POMONA COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • Bucknell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • TF
    TEAK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • LC
    LANAI CAT SANCTUARYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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
3
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
4
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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8
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Santa Monica Breakfast Club Welfare Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%45%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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,925

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

50 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 68 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
39/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $510,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION — $485,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATIONPOMONA COLLEGE — $483,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEUCLA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONBucknell University — $100,000 · EducationREADY TO SUCCEED — $77,500 · Education+9 more — $194,500 · Education+9 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC — $390,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE S…Individual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANTING STICK PROJECT INC — $125,000 · OtherPLANTING STICK PROJECT INCGADEN SHARTSE THUBTEN DHARGYE LING — $35,000 · Other+35 more — $233,180 · Other+35 morePENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $430,000 · InternationalPENCILS OF PROM…LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL — $102,590 · InternationalLOS ANGELES WOR…HEAL THE BAY — $170,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Rand Corporation — $133,000 · Public BenefitSRI SARVESHWARI SAMOOH — $75,000 · ReligionVISION TO LEARN — $15,000 · HealthMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $12,500 · HealthNine Gates Programs Inc — $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER — $5,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $2,507 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · Health
Education$2,050,000Other$933,180International$532,590Environment$175,000Public Benefit$133,000Religion$75,000Health$65,507

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 budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $510,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION — $485,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $483,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $430,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC — $390,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $170,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $133,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL — $102,590 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBucknell University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED — $77,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSRI SARVESHWARI SAMOOH — $75,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetOAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $57,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANAI CAT SANCTUARY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL — $12,010 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership Scholars Program — $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOFF ASSIGNMENT INC — $9,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetMaine Central Institute — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRASHE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $2,507 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CENTURY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL NOMADS GROUP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MONICA BREAKFAST CLUB WELFARE FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CHAIN OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES — $670 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Joseph Drown Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Renaissance Charitabl…Paypal Charitable Giv…
California Community FoundationCA17.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph Drown Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Segal Family-United World 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Segal Family-United World Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Segal Family-United World 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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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