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The Seltzer Family Foundation at a glance

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The Seltzer Family Foundation

Supports the mission of united jewish appeal-federation of jewish philanthropies of new york, inc., (uja-federation of new york).

$239k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$324kReligion$134kHealth$80kInternational$35kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$16kEducation$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $200,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $238,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,950 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $6k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $6k → 7%BELEV ECHAD: $10k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 7 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$560k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalHealthReligionOther
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
    5× · 2021–2025 · $324k · revenue +5%
  • AC
    American Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $74k · revenue +60%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +18%
  • BE
    BELEV ECHAD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
5
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Hakav Hameached Inc

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.

International
11
Zechut Avot Foundation
Philanthropy
12
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shalva Israel Assocfor Care & Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities (Ra); 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.
04the grantee network

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 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
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: $324,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc: $74,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah IncAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $26,700 · OtherNATIONAL COUNC…THE BEACH MINYAN AT THE SUMMER SHUL INC: $19,600 · OtherTHE BEACH MINY…Individual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual gra…HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $7,200 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY…WESTHAMPTON SYNAGOGUE INC: $6,800 · OtherWESTHAMPTON SY…YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY: $6,100 · OtherYESHIVA OF NOR…CHAI LIFELINE INC: $63,600 · HealthCHAI LIFELI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $11,000 · InternationalBELEV ECHAD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHALVA ISRAEL ASSOCFOR CARE & INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (RA): $6,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $5,500 · Human ServicesZAKA NORTH INC: $5,400 · Religion
Philanthropy$423,000Other$83,400Health$63,600International$46,000Human Services$21,500Religion$5,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $324,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc: $74,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $63,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY: $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALVA ISRAEL ASSOCFOR CARE & INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (RA): $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $5,400 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 FundFjcMorgan Stanley Global…The Ojc FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Seltzer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seltzer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Seltzer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Seltzer 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 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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