Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Seligsohn 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Seligsohn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $3.0M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $4.0M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $239k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $211k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $165k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $169k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $119k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $104k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kohelet Yeshiva High School Inc | $4,792,860 | 9 | 18% |
| Lower Merion Synagogue | $816,160 | 9 | n/a |
| Ventnor Shul Inc | $425,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Morris and Rose Caskey Torah Academy of Greater Philadelphia | $367,720 | 6 | 2% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $91,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $89,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Is Kosloff Torah Academy High School for Girls | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Franklin Institute | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Politz Day School of Cherry Hill a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation | $26,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Swc Museum Corp | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seligsohn Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Erlbaum Family Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Communal Fund · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Seligsohn Foundation
- How much does Seligsohn Foundation give?
- Seligsohn Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $3,005,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seligsohn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Religion (34%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Seligsohn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kohelet Yeshiva High School Inc ($4.8M), Lower Merion Synagogue ($816k), Ventnor Shul Inc ($425k).
- Does Seligsohn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seligsohn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seligsohn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erlbaum Family Foundation, Katz Family Charitable Trust, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
- Where is Seligsohn Foundation based?
- Seligsohn Foundation is based in PA.
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