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Sharon E Sigesmund Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$546kPhilanthropy$140kEducation$56kEnvironment$45kFood & Nutrition$3kInternational$1kReligion$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NEVADA$10,000
SAFE HOUSE$10,000
SPRINGS PRESERVE$10,000
TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA$5,500
TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$3,100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$1,000
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 (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE HOUSE: $10k → 13%SAFE HOUSE: $5k → 13%SAFE HOUSE: $2k → 13%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$648k · 6 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$648k
$1k

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $515k · revenue +77%
  • TU
    TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA
    2× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +20%
  • SH
    SAFE HOUSE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona

Jewish philanthropies of southern arizona (jpsa) is committed to achieving the full potential of jewish philanthropy, now and for future generations. comprised of jewish federation of southern arizona (jfsa or federation) and jewish…

Philanthropy
4
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Community Action Against Rape

Offering hope, help and healing to those affected by sexual violence and exploitation. making an impact in the core services of: prevention, education, advocacy and counseling.

Crime & Legal
7
Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona

Jewish philanthropies of southern arizona (jpsa) is committed to achieving the full potential of jewish philanthropy, now and for future generations. comprised of jewish federation of southern arizona (jfsa or federation) and jewish…

Philanthropy
8
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
9
Jewish Family Service of the Desert

To provide for the social service needs of the jewish and general community throughout the greater coachella valley with a commitment to promote the well being of persons of all ages, income and lifesytles.

Human Services
10
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
11
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas

Habitat for humanity las vegas, inc. (habitat) a not-for-profit organization located in las vegas, nevada was established in 1990. habitat's purpose is to build low cost houses with the help of the homeowner families, which are transferred…

Housing & Shelter
12
Opportunity Alliance Nevada

Partner to provide tools to grow financial capability in nv

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service Agency; the most unlike its peers is Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $515,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER: $140,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER+2 more: $13,860 · OtherTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA: $55,500 · EducationSPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EnvironmentSAFE HOUSE INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHREE SQUARE: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $1,000 · Religion
Other$668,860Education$55,500Environment$45,000Human Services$17,000Food & Nutrition$3,000International$1,000Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $515,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER: $140,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA: $55,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAFE HOUSE INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $1,000 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.

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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 Sharon E Sigesmund Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharon E Sigesmund Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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