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Seligsohn 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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.8MReligion$1.8MArts & Culture$204kCivil Rights$115kScience & Tech$109kHuman Services$47kPhilanthropy$47kHealth$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $738k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL$2,566,860
LOWER MERION SYNAGOGUE$645,160
CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY$231,720
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH$231,720
THE VENTNOR SHUL INC$200,000
PHILADELPHIA LEGACY OF CULTURE TRUST$75,000
NORTH STAR$18,000
AMIT$18,000
INSTITUE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$10,000
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
CHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MAIN LINE$5,000
POLITZ DAY SCHOOL$5,000
STAND WITH US$5,000
GAN ISRAEL DAY CAMP$2,500
02The need
03

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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $1k → 6%running strong for american indian youth: $500 → 6%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

MT
IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
GA

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 40 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
7

Total granted

$4.9M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+127%

Still filing today

45%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthScience & TechCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MA
    MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $318k · revenue +24%
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $91k · revenue +51%
  • INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • SM
    SWC MUSEUM CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +127%
  • TG
    THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • TM
    THE MASONIC CHARITITES FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

5
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
6
Passaic Hebrew Institute

YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…

Education
7
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

10
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
11
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
12
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scleroderma Research Foundation. 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Native Hawaiian Community D…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr17%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%76%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,134

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

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 51 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC — $2,692,860 · EducationKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INCMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $317,720 · EducationMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA+3 more — $32,850 · EducationLOWER MERION SYNAGOGUE — $766,160 · OtherLOWER MERION SYNAGOGUEYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH — $342,720 · OtherYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAHVENTNOR SHUL INC — $200,000 · OtherVENTNOR SHUL INCPHILADELPHIA LEGACY OF CULTURE TRUST — $127,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA LEGACY OF CULTURE TRUSTAMIT — $71,000 · Other+29 more — $294,500 · Other+29 moreSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $91,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSWC MUSEUM CORP — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $79,000 · Science & TechJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $33,600 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $17,500 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,750 · HealthScleroderma Research Foundation — $3,750 · HealthAMIT CHILDREN INC — $15,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $6,250 · International
Education$3,043,430Other$1,801,880Arts & Culture$148,500Science & Tech$79,000Philanthropy$33,600Health$25,000International$21,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC — $2,692,860 over 8y, 18% of budgetMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $317,720 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $91,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $79,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $33,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $21,100 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSWC MUSEUM CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGolden Slipper Club & Charities Inc — $11,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $9,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gorilla Foundation — $7,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC — $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE FOR US ATLANTIC COUNTY WOMENS CENTER — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $6,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $6,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation — $3,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $3,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC — $2,500 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds KOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
  • Who funds POLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds SWC MUSEUM CORP
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds Golden Slipper Club & Charities Inc
  • Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds The Gorilla Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC
  • Who funds A PLACE FOR US ATLANTIC COUNTY WOMENS CENTER
  • Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC

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.

Erlbaum Family FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Seligsohn 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation7% of income from government
  • A Place for Us Atlantic County Womens Center0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 51 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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