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The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund

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.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

52% of The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Philadelphia, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $27k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’17
12
’18
11
’19
12
’20
14
’21
14
’22
13
’23
10
’24
7
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$99kPhilanthropy$23kEducation$21kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$3kCrime & Legal$500Other$34k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$325k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$13,728
BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN$3,000
10000 DEGREES$1,500
RYR-1 FOUNDATION$1,500
CANAL HOUSING ALLIANCE$1,500
ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH$1,000
GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$1,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$1,000
THE ISLAND SCHOOL$1,000
SUBURBAN SEAHAWKS CLUB$1,000
BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $14k → 7%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $1k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 12%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $12k → 7%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $1k → 10%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR THE CHILDREN: $1k → 12%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $1k → 10%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $1k → 10%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $500 → 10%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $14k → 22%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $750 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $11k → 22%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $750 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $650 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%YMCA FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $650 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
CA
KY
WV
DE
NC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 22 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down. Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$175k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+34%

Still filing today

91%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +2%
  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +175%
  • TR
    THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • TW
    THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -17%
  • CC
    Children's Council of San Franciscograduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
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Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
9
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
10
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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11
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Children Coalition Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brady Cancer Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild and Family ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsEarly Childhood Education C…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Education Equity LeadershipYmca Community CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health CentersJewish Community Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%7%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr17%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%6%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr17%54%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,131

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.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 34 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $55,335 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILAD…JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $25,311 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENCYBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES …SAFE CHILDREN COALITION FOUNDATION INC — $5,800 · Human ServicesSAFE CHILDREN COALITION FOUNDATION INCELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH — $4,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient — $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recip…CANAL HOUSING ALLIANCE — $10,750 · OtherCANAL HOUSING ALLIANCERISING TIDE INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,900 · OtherRISING TIDE INTERNATIO…GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN — $4,000 · OtherGASPARILLA ISL CONSER …Bridge the Gap College Prep — $2,500 · OtherBridge the Gap College…+8 more — $6,250 · Other+8 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $14,843 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE LEXINGTO…MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Philanthropy10000 DEGREES — $8,250 · Education10000 DEGRE…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $7,000 · EducationTemple Univ…THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC — $3,000 · EducationTHE ISLAND …THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION — $2,500 · EducationTHE WOODLYN…THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION — $7,773 · HealthBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $1,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,500 · HealthTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $500 · HealthAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $5,300 · Recreation & SportsSUBURBAN SEAHAWKS CLUB — $4,500 · Recreation & SportsYOUR AGENCY INCORPORATED — $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$98,946Other$41,900Philanthropy$23,343Education$20,750Health$12,273Recreation & Sports$9,800Arts & Culture$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $55,335 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $25,311 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $14,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES — $8,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION — $7,773 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION FOUNDATION INC — $5,800 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetYOUR AGENCY INCORPORATED — $5,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $5,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN SEAHAWKS CLUB — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Council of San Francisco — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTOWN EDGMONT LITTLE LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRADY CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOK TOWER GARDENS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gulf Coast Community …Vanguard Charitable E…Baird Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Samuel and Irene Saligman Charitable Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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