Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Seltzer 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.
- $228k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Seltzer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 66 | $218k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $198k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $194k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $206k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $208k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $196k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $226k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $238k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $145,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $133,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $92,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $77,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $59,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $58,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Rainforest Trust | $58,340 | 9 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $56,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $49,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($552k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seltzer Family 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Seltzer Family Foundation
- How much does Seltzer Family Foundation give?
- Seltzer Family Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $227,611 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seltzer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Religion (17%), International (10%).
- Who are Seltzer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($146k), Sierra Club Foundation ($133k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($92k).
- Does Seltzer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seltzer Family 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 Seltzer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Seltzer Family Foundation based?
- Seltzer Family Foundation is based in PA.
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