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Sigmund Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sigmund Foundation Inc

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.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

International$1.1MReligion$159kArts & Culture$64kHuman Services$56kHealth$44kCivil Rights$21kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$20,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$20,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$17,200
OSHMAN FAMILY JCC$10,400
NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE$10,000
BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$7,200
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$7,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$4,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$3,800
J THE JEWISH NEWSWEEKLY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$3,600
HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS$3,600
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$2,500
HONESTREPORTING$1,500
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 (FY19–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $6k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $5k → 11%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $7k → 8%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $4k → 8%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$904k · 20 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
3

Total granted

$904k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+109%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +55%
  • OF
    OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +6%
  • NY
    NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • OM
    OPENDOR MEDIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +109%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF MID PENINSULA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP CIRCLEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +72%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
3
The Jerusalem Connection
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4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
7
University of Judaism Foundation
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8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
11
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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12
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $498,600 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INCAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $78,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY+2 more: $8,000 · InternationalCONGREGATION BETH JACOB: $102,573 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH…OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,400 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEW…NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $19,000 · OtherNEW YORK MEDICAL …STANFORD HOSPITAL: $10,500 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - THE JEWISH CHAPLAINCY: $9,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,500 · Other+7 more: $29,900 · Other+7 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $59,800 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10,800 · Human ServicesHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $12,600 · EducationSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc: $4,600 · EducationSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $10,000 · Religion
International$1,059,600Other$214,373Arts & Culture$63,800Human Services$48,300Education$17,200Food & Nutrition$10,000Religion$10,000

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $498,600 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $78,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $59,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $12,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $5,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc: $4,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Arcadia FoundationJohn and Marcia Goldm…Jewish Community Fede…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arcadia FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arcadia Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sigmund Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sigmund Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 26 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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