· Private foundation
SeldinHaring-Smith 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of SeldinHaring-Smith Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AOASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES3× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +52%
- FOFEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
- SISUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- GHGENERATION HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +456%
The Education Trust Incone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +25%- IFINSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The purposes for which the corporation was formed are: to provide for an exchange of information on policies; to assemble and disseminate information through appropriate media; to encourage and assist in the advancement of individuals in…
Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieving the Dream Inc and the most unlike its peers is Generation Hope. 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.
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 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds GENERATION HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF STATE MASSAGE THERAPY BOARDS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCSWEENEY'S LITERARY ARTS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON APPLICATION INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER LEARNING ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR OPPORTUNITY PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ecmc Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Gates Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Michelson 20mm Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Imaginable Futures 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 SeldinHaring-Smith 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.
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
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.