· Private foundation
The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE ABE & KATHYRN SELSKY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY AND ANNE REICH FAMILY FOUNDATION | $139,122 |
| GARY AND PENNIE ABRAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $46,374 |
| RONA AND JEFFREY ABRAMSON FOUNDATION | $46,374 |
| GALENA-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION | $46,012 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $323k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TGTHE GARY AND PENNIE ABRAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $715k · revenue +24% · 38% of their budget
- JSJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +100%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $110k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- TATHE ANNE AND RONALD ABRAMSON FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $668k
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE-WEIZMANN INSTITUone grant, 2019 · $10k
- JHJEWISH HEART FOR AFRICA INNOVATIONAFRICone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…
The jewish federation of greater washington (federation) envisions a connected and vibrant jewish community that cares for each other, fosters jewish learning and journeys, embraces jewish peoplehood and israel, and acts as a force for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Galena-Yorktown Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HENRY&ANNE REICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARY AND PENNIE ABRAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RONA AND JEFFREY ABRAMSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GALENA-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION TO END SENIOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
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.
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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 The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
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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