· Private foundation
The Scott J Seligman Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA FE JEWISH CENTER - CHABAD | $163,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF | $25,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| 70 FACES MEDIA | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| VALUE CULTURE | $10,000 |
| JDC AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $7,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHABAD OF NOVI | $3,600 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $2,950 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $2,500 |
| GUARDIANS OF THE CITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT4× · 2022–2025 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2020–2025 · $20k
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF FORTH WORTH2× · 2023–2024 · $17k
Funded once
- TCTEMPLE CHAIone grant, 2024 · $25k
- COCHABAD OF MILL VALLEYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCOgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +98%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Value Culture ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Seligman Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Scott J Seligman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scott J Seligman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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