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The Seeja Foundation at a glance

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The Seeja 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$159kReligion$92kArts & Culture$57kHealth$20kHuman Services$11kInternational$3kEducation$3kEmployment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$7,616
Median grant
2
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$25,000
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY$8,500
NATIONAL THEATRE OF LONDON$7,616
MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE$1,800
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$1,800
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$850
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN: $2k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 11 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$320k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+39%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $157k · revenue +46%
  • FI
    FOOTSTEPS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • SL
    ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • JC
    JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +4%
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
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
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
The Ayin Institute Inc

The ayin institute, inc. (the organization") was formed on january 7, 2021 for the purpose of providing an artist-run publishing platform, production studio, and research collective rooted in jewish culture and emanating outward. the…

Arts & Culture
10
Cg Jung Institute of New York Inc

The C.G. Jung Institute of New York offers a post-graduate clinical training program that prepares its students for a professional practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst and membership within a worldwide community of Jungian analysts. The…

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11
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
12
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc; the most unlike its peers is Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 34 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $156,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHR…CONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN: $80,240 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUNNEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY: $39,000 · OtherNEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARYNATIONAL THEATRE OF LONDON: $7,616 · Other+17 more: $16,350 · Other+17 moreACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $20,000 · HealthFOOTSTEPS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CulturePRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $1,800 · EducationAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $1,000 · EducationYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $500 · EducationAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $500 · EducationBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,300 · InternationalISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $1,000 · International
Philanthropy$156,800Other$143,206Health$20,000Human Services$11,800Arts & Culture$8,000Education$3,800International$3,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $156,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER AT WEST PARK INC: $250 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…ImpactassetsincThe Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Seeja Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seeja Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–60%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Seeja Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Seeja 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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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