· Private foundation
Seller-Lehrer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 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 FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $1,355,325 |
| DRAMATISTS GUILD FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| VOTERIDERS | $245,000 |
| MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $176,727 |
| WILD EARTH ALLIES | $160,000 |
| RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC | $125,000 |
| JULLIARD | $100,000 |
| THE BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE | $100,000 |
| THE GREENING OF DETROIT'S DETROIT CONSERVATION CORPS | $100,000 |
| ARTS IGNITE FKA ARTISTS STRIVING TO END POVERTY INC | $75,000 |
| THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC | $75,000 |
| SAY DETROIT | $50,000 |
| SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- TDTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC5× · 2018–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +0%
- MYMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT5× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $425k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- EAENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +220%
- BABLACK ARTS INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $100k
- AAARRAY ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -37%
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 32 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 THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WEARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ARRAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND 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: American Endowment Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Seller-Lehrer Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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