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The Janet Prindle Seidler Foundation Dated

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$198k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2021.

Philanthropy$206kArts & Culture$155kHealth$100kInternational$65kReligion$53kCivil Rights$50kHuman Services$45kEducation$30k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$198,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JANET DONOR ADVISED FUND$198,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $65k → 17%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.

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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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
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
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
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Adelphi University

Adelphi university is dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes, hands-on learning and innovative programs supporting academic and career success.

Education
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Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
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The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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

JANET DONOR ADVISED FUND — $198,000 · OtherJANET DONOR ADVISED FUNDThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $30,000 · OtherThe Carnegie Hall Society IncMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $10,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $8,000 · OtherST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENS…WNET — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWNETMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM …ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC CLASSICAL O…THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S A…NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S…AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $50,000 · EducationAUBURN THEOL…DePauw University — $20,000 · EducationDePauw Unive…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFEL…MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Social ScienceALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN — $5,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA DE LUZ — $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$256,000Arts & Culture$125,000Human Services$105,000Education$80,000Civil Rights$50,000Social Science$40,000Health$40,000Philanthropy$8,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWNET — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA DE LUZ — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Janet Prindle Seidler Foundation Dated 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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