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The Helena Segy Foundation at a glance

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The Helena Segy 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.

$180k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$609kArts & Culture$444kEmployment$73kEnvironment$20kInternational$17kEducation$10kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$30,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$20,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$20,000
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL DE MATTEIS CENTER$12,500
MOUNT SINAI THE LILIAN AND BENJAMIN HERTZBERG PALLIATIVE$10,000
GRACE INSTITUTE$10,000
THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$6,500
CALVARY HOSPITAL$6,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$5,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,500
LINCOLN CENTER$3,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN CANCER RESEARCH: $8k → 22%THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION: $8k → 20%CALVARY HOSPITAL: $6k → 28%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $8k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7k → 17%THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION: $8k → 20%CALVARY HOSPITAL: $6k → 28%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $8k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7k → 17%THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION: $8k → 20%CALVARY HOSPITAL: $5k → 28%American Institute of Cancer Research: $7k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6k → 17%THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION: $8k → 20%CALVARY HOSPITAL: $5k → 28%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6k → 17%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL DE MATTEIS CENTER: $13k → 6%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL DE MATTEIS CENTER: $13k → 6%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL DE MATTEIS CENTER: $13k → 6%ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL DE MATTEIS CENTER: $13k → 6%St Francis Hospital Foundation: $10k → 6%GRACE INSTITUTE: $13k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $13k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%See Attached: $185k → 17%The Metropolitan Opera Company: $25k → 17%The Metropolitan Opera Company: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $23k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%New York Philharmonic: $8k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $6k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $6k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $30k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $30k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $30k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS: $10k → 17%Mt Sinai Health System: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI THE LILIAN AND BENJAMIN HERTZBERG PALLIATIVE: $10k → 17%Mt Sinai Health System: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI THE LILLIAN AND BENJAMIN HERTZBERG PALLIATIVE: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI THE LILLIAN AND BENJAMIN HERTZBERG PALLIATIVE: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI THE LILIAN AND BENJAMIN HERTZBERG PALLIATIVE: $10k → 17%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 38 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+2%

Still filing today

66%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +33%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +145%
  • BW
    BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AH
    AMERICAN HEAT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • MS
    Mount Sinai the Lillian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute in honor of ADG
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
9
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
10
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
12
Berggruen Institute
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Classical Orchestra Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 47 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $120,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGMetropolitan Opera: $107,500 · OtherMetropolitan OperaGRACE INSTITUTE: $72,500 · OtherGRACE INSTITUTESt. Francis Hospital, De Matteis Center: $62,500 · OtherSt. Francis Hospital, De Matteis CenterThe Metropolitan Opera Company: $50,000 · OtherThe Metropolitan Opera CompanyBROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION: $37,000 · OtherBROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITIONMt Sinai Health System: $35,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $35,000 · Other+16 more: $172,500 · Other+16 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $105,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S R…CALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $31,500 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL INCAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $22,500 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE F…ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL …+1 more: $2,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $34,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SY…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR …American Museum of Natural History: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of …THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL C…NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK YOUTH SYMP…The American Classical Orchestra Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureThe American Classi…Museum of Modern Art: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Ar…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $11,500 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF A…YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureSALMAGUNDI CLUB: $8,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $30,000 · EducationSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $15,500 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $8,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,500 · International
Other$692,000Health$213,500Arts & Culture$209,000Education$53,500International$16,500

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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE: $72,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION: $37,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $34,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $13,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Classical Orchestra Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSALMAGUNDI CLUB: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds GRACE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Classical Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SALMAGUNDI CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Helena Segy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helena Segy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Helena Segy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Helena Segy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 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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