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.

Seltzer Family Foundation

Seltzer Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$894kReligion$347kInternational$202kCivil Rights$146kScience & Tech$85kAnimals$81kHealth$72kArts & Culture$64kOther$0

02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k58 grants · $125k
$10k–50k9 grants · $103k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$15,000
EARTH JUSTICE	$15,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$12,500
RAINFOREST TRUST	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGAN DAVID ALO	$10,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$10,000
FRIENDS OF YEMIN ORDE	$10,000
HADASSAH	$10,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND	$10,000
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH	$7,500
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL	$7,500
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS	$7,500
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER	$5,500
WATERKEEPERS ALLIANCE	$5,000
OCEANA	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 78 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

78 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+47%

Still filing today

64%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +41%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +202%
EARTHJUSTICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +82%

Funded once

YO
YEMIN ORDE
one grant, 2018 · $19k
WI
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
one grant, 2017 · $4k
LI
LIFE IN A JAR FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $3k

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal

The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Whiteland Township Volunteer Fire Association. 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

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 133 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/76

Grantees still filing

54/76

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$741,165Other$720,803International$304,866Civil Rights$78,600Health$59,650Arts & Culture$49,910Animals$48,500

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

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY13.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Seltzer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seltzer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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