· Private foundation
The Selma and Irving Ettenberg 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYANT UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| NCJW ESSEX COUNTY NJ | $25,000 |
| PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN | $18,000 |
| CASA OF MORRIS & SUSSEX COUNTIES | $15,000 |
| ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $13,600 |
| SOUND START BABIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE PAP CORPS | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL OF BOCA RATON | $8,850 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION - FLORIDA CHAPTER | $8,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $7,000 |
| TEMPLE SHAAREI SHALOM | $6,000 |
| BIG RED FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| LIVING SKY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JACOB SS ZWEIG FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $836k · revenue +22%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +48%
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN5× · 2021–2025 · $104k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- GBGRACE BAPTIST CHURCH OF DEERFIELD BEACHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- VHVeterans Healing Farmgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +283%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TrustBridge Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Purple Summer Theatre Inc. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
106 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. 106 of the 162 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING SKY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACOB S ZWEIG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FISHING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Sokol Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Moss Foundation Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · American Express Foundation · Lost Tree Village Charitable 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 Selma and Irving Ettenberg 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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