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Sherman N and Rita F Siegel Foundation

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.

$271k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Health$229kRecreation & Sports$208kEnvironment$50kEducation$31kAnimals$25kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $165k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$165,000
MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDENS$25,000
FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON$25,000
CANCER ALLIANCE OF HEALTH & HOPE$11,000
HANLEY FOUNDATION$10,000
ROSARIAN ACADEMY$10,000
FLAGLER MUSEUM$10,000
SCRIPPS RESEARCH$5,000
PII FOUNDATION$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
BALLEN ISLES CHARITY FOUNDATION$2,000
MARY REYNOLDS GIVING FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SCRIPPS RESEARCH: $5k → 11%MARY REYNOLDS GIVING FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $23k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN: $25k → 17%CAMP MERRIE WOODE: $3k → 13%PII FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $205k → 13%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $165k → 11%PII FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10k → 11%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ROSARIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 11%KIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON: $25k → 11%HANLEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HOMESAFE INC: $3k → 11%MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDENS: $25k → 11%BALLEN ISLES CHARITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PALM BEACH ZOO: $25k → 11%CANCER ALLIANCE OF HEALTH & HOPE: $11k → 11%FLAGLER MUSEUM: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 38% of Sherman N and Rita F Siegel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sherman N and Rita F Siegel Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
4
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
5
Johnson & Johnson Foundation United States Inc
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Shands Jacksonville Foundation Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Education
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
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University of Miami
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James P McCarron Jr Medical Foundation Inc
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
11
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac — $205,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacKijana Educational Empowerment Initiative Inc — $20,000 · EducationKijana Educational Empowerment Initiative…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $190,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation IncHANLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDENS — $25,000 · OtherMOUNTS BOTAN…CANCER ALLIANCE OF HEALTH & HOPE — $11,000 · OtherCANCER ALLIA…ROSARIAN ACADEMY — $10,000 · OtherROSARIAN ACA…FLAGLER MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherFLAGLER MUSE…SCRIPPS RESEARCH — $5,000 · OtherSCRIPPS RESE…Individual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherHOMESAFE INC — $2,500 · Other+1 more — $500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 · HealthRONALD MC…American Heart Association Inc — $22,500 · HealthAmerican …PII FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthPII FOUND…THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $25,000 · AnimalsTHE ZOOLO…FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON INC — $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS O…RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$225,000Philanthropy$202,000Other$67,000Health$53,500Animals$50,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $205,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $190,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKijana Educational Empowerment Initiative Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPII FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Edward & Bethel Kean Charitable FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward & Bethel Kean Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sherman N and Rita F Siegel Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get 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, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Sherman N and Rita F Siegel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sherman N and Rita F Siegel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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