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Selkowitz Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STAMFORD | $15,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC | $7,500 |
| MILL RIVER PARK COLLABORATIVE | $5,500 |
| LUPUS LA | $5,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $3,000 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIAT | $2,500 |
| BARTLETT ARBORTUM GARDENS | $2,100 |
| AMERICAN PROMISE | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $278k · revenue +55%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $224k · revenue +100%
- SMStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TMTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BTBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +46%
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.
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…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill River Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 46 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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS LA CO EMERGE ↗
- Who funds JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds STARFISH CONNECTION 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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Boehm Family Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Claire L Helsing Foundation · Rich Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Garden Homes Fund · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community 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 Selkowitz Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Stamford Land Conservation Trust Inc — 68% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.
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