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The Seidel Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$150kInternational$30kFood & Nutrition$28kHealth$11kCivil Rights$10kScience & Tech$6kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,860
Median grant
2
States reached
$268k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OSMAN FAMILY JCC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,560
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD$5,000
CONGREGATION BETH AM$4,860
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LA GUIDE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HLT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
RENO WIND SYMPHONY$1,000
ATTA GIRL FOUNDATION$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PENNINSULA BRIDGE: $1k → 7%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $20k → 8%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $5k → 10%STAND WITH US: $10k → 14%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERROSISM: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%COLUMBUS SCIENCE CENTER: $1k → 15%RENO WIND SYMPHONY: $1k → 10%PENNINSULA BRIDGE: $1k → 7%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $20k → 8%STAND WITH US: $5k → 14%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERROSISM: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%RENO WIND SYMPHONY: $1k → 10%PENNINSULA BRIDGE: $1k → 7%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $15k → 8%STAND WITH US: $5k → 14%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERROSISM: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%PENNINSULA BRIDGE: $1k → 7%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $15k → 8%STAND WITH US: $5k → 14%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERROSISM: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $11k → 8%STAND WITH US: $5k → 14%INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERROSISM: $1k → 14%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $10k → 8%TEMPLE BETH AM: $5k → 14%WASHINGTON INSTITURE FOR NEAR EASTE: $5k → 14%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $10k → 8%TEMPLE BETH AM: $5k → 14%OSMAN FAMILY JCC: $5k → 8%LA MASTER CHORALE: $2k → 14%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $10k → 8%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $6k → 8%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $6k → 8%ASSOCIATES OF JEWISH HOME: $2k → 14%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $5k → 8%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $5k → 8%ELNET: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 14%SECOND HARVEST FOOD: $5k → 8%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2k → 14%SECOND HARVEST FOOD: $5k → 8%SECOND HARVEST FOOD: $5k → 8%SECOND HARVEST FOOD: $5k → 8%SECOND HARVEST FOOD: $5k → 8%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 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$243k · 14 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$243k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+34%

Still filing today

21%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalCrime & LegalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +122%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • AC
    Ada's Cafe
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITURE FOR NEAR EASTE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • E
    ELNET
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
5
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
6
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
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
9
American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health
10
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

11
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
12
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OSMAN FAMILY JCC — $106,400 · OtherOSMAN FAMILY JCCCONGREGATION BETH AM — $32,316 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AMSECOND HARVEST FOOD — $28,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOODTEMPLE BETH AM — $10,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,560 · Other+16 more — $41,200 · Other+16 moreISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $30,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERG…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,100 · Crime & LegalCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · HealthAda's Cafe — $2,000 · EmploymentThe Rand Corporation — $1,000 · Public BenefitBetter Brothers Los Angeles Corporation — $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$227,376International$30,000Crime & Legal$5,100Health$2,500Employment$2,000Public Benefit$1,000Community Improvement$1,000

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 budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAda's Cafe — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBetter Brothers Los Angeles Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds Ada's Cafe
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds The Rand Corporation
  • Who funds DISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Seidel Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Seidel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Seidel Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 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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