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Sellinger Family Foundation at a glance

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Sellinger 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$165kHuman Services$110kRecreation & Sports$16kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$9kEnvironment$6kInternational$4kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$211k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHOE THAT FIT$20,000
CATO INSTITUTE$2,500
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$2,021
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL$2,000
MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION$2,000
THEFIREORG$1,000
LOVE LIKE KY FOUNDATION$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHOES THAT FIT: $32k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOE THAT FIT: $20k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 7 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$266k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    SHOES THAT FIT
    4× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +117%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +56%
  • TC
    THE CDM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • BT
    BOYS TO GENTLEMEN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SL
    Summit Land Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +368%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports
2
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…

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3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
Center for a New American Security Inc

The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…

International
5
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
6
United States Skiing Foundation

United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…

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7
Sailors for the Sea Inc

Sailors for the sea unites boaters around the world to protect the ocean. the ocean is in crisis and it needs powerful, well-educated advocates to stand up for it. we choose to focus on a sophisticated and influential constituency that…

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8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Seal Future Foundation Inc

The mission of the seal future foundation is to provide navy seals a foundation that supports their well-being, education, and career to continue a life of service within their communities.

Philanthropy
10
United States Tennis Association- Middle States Section

The org. is a section of the united states tennis assoc. and is dedicated to carrying out the goals of the national assoc. within its region, particularly with respect to promoting tennis opportunities for juniors and adults of all…

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11
Young Americans for Liberty Foundation

Yalf seeks to recruit, train, and educate students on the ideals of liberty and the constitution.

Public Benefit
12
National Farmers Union Foundation

The national farmers union foundation's (nfuf) mission is to empower people to educate our youth, neighbors, media and policymakers on the social, economic and cooperative contributions of family agriculture.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Navy Seal Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC: $95,000 · OtherUSCSMU COX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $40,500 · OtherSMU COX SCHOOL OF BUSINESSIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS TO GENTLEMEN INC: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $22,553 · Other+10 moreSHOES THAT FIT: $97,200 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FITMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentSummit Land Conservancy: $6,030 · EnvironmentSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $12,377 · Health+3 more: $758 · HealthTHE CDM FOUNDATION: $8,966 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE: $2,500 · Public BenefitSKIFF SAILING FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$188,053Human Services$97,200Environment$14,030Health$13,135Philanthropy$8,966Public Benefit$2,500Recreation & Sports$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $97,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $12,377 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CDM FOUNDATION: $8,966 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $6,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIFF SAILING FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sellinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sellinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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