· Public charity
The Seltzer Family Foundation
Supports the mission of united jewish appeal-federation of jewish philanthropies of new york, inc., (uja-federation of new york).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $200,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $238,650 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,950 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $90,000 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AHAVAS TORAH | $18,000 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF LAWRENCE-CEDARHURST | $13,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $10,000 |
| THE BEACH MINYAN AT THE SUMMER SHUL | $8,500 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH | $7,200 |
| THE HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE | $6,800 |
| YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY | $6,100 |
| ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND | $5,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $324k · revenue +5%
- ACAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $74k · revenue +60%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INCone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +18%
- BEBELEV ECHAD INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Support of religious schools in Israel
To help and support children with rare sybfromes and disorders and their families. to help and support children victimized and traumatized by terror attacks and thier families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shalva Israel Assocfor Care & Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities (Ra) and the most unlike its peers is American Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds SHALVA ISRAEL ASSOCFOR CARE & INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (RA) ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND ↗
- Who funds ZAKA NORTH 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ojc Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Seltzer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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