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The Jeanne Sorensen-Siegel Foundation In at a glance

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The Jeanne Sorensen-Siegel Foundation In

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$95k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$1.1MHealth$210kSocial Science$150kArts & Culture$31kReligion$10kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
ASPCA$25,000
THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER$10,000
NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10k → 17%WOODROW WILSON CENTER: $50k → 14%JAZZ NIGHT SCHOOL: $500 → 9%AAP COMMITTEE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE: $10k → 7%AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTION: $50k → 17%WOODROW WILSON CENTER: $50k → 14%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $10k → 17%WOODROW WILSON CENTER: $50k → 14%THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $10k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1.0M → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $17k → 17%CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 17%ASPCA: $25k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $15k → 17%HORIZONS AT ST DAVIDS SCHOOL: $5k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 5 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+128%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23
Arts & CultureAnimalsSocial ScienceHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • WW
    WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +24%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AL
    American Liver Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -63%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
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
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
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
6
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
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Liberty Science Center

To inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers and excite learners of all ages about the power, promise, and pure fun of science and technology.lsc offers exceptional science learning onsite, offsite, and online as well as…

Arts & Culture
9
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
10
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
11
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Nyc Chapter Inc

Our primary mission is to present concerts that represent the music of AACM Composers. The concert activities are designed to bring new American music to the general public and to create an atmosphere that is conducive for the artistically…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,017,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTERTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50,000 · AnimalsWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $150,000 · Social ScienceWOODROW WIL…American Liver Foundation: $100,000 · HealthTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherAAP COMMITTEE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE: $10,000 · OtherHORIZONS AT ST DAVIDS SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Animals$1,067,000Social Science$150,000Health$100,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Other$75,000Arts & Culture$30,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,017,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ NIGHT SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jeanne Sorensen-Siegel Foundation In funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeanne Sorensen-Siegel Foundation In. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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