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The Selz 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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$25MEducation$8.6MRecreation & Sports$2.3MEnvironment$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.1MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$995kPublic Benefit$482kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$135M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY UNIVERSITY$50,543
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$25,718
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$7,500
UNITED IN LIGHT$5,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$3,121
NATURE CONSRVANCY OF MONTANA$3,000
HORSE HAVEN MONTANA$3,000
THE MORGAN LIBRARY$2,000
SIDEWALK RESCUE$2,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$1,000
MOUTH TO HAND PARENT ASSOCIATION$750
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$210
PAID THROUGH ENERGY TRANSFER LP$116
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHE'S THE FIRST: $3k → 17%NEIGHBORS LINK: $5k → 9%SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $300 → 13%NEIGHBORS LINK: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $3k → 9%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $73k → 17%MOUTH TO HAND PARENT ASSOCIATION: $750 → 9%THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK: $73k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73M · 70 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
51

Total granted

$73M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+36%

Still filing today

61%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    2× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +25%
  • GC
    GOUCHER COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $560k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TM
    TEXTILE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
    one grant, 2021 · $800k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -6%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
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
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Sidewalk Rescue. 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

71 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. 71 of the 128 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
53/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE DETAILS ATTACHED: $37,755,752 · OtherSEE DETAILS ATTACHEDT ROWE PRICE CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $16,500,000 · OtherT ROWE PRICE CHARITABLE GIVING FUNDLA GUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4,055,000 · OtherLA GUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGEWORLD MONUMENT FUND: $3,240,100 · Other+85 more: $11,885,070 · Other+85 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,332,049 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGE: $560,000 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $300,000 · EducationMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $204,000 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $150,000 · EducationFordham University: $117,016 · Education+8 more: $271,380 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,070,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $3,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Museum of Natural History: $600,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $146,000 · Arts & CultureThe American Classical Orchestra Inc: $67,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $43,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $27,030 · Arts & CultureDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $337,000 · HealthACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $146,000 · HealthSMILING GOAT RANCH INC: $61,000 · Health+3 more: $13,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $500,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,500 · Environment+2 more: $10,500 · EnvironmentCATO INSTITUTE: $442,719 · Public BenefitGULLOTTA HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $14,000 · Public Benefit
Other$73,435,922Education$2,934,445Civil Rights$1,073,000Arts & Culture$883,530Health$557,000Environment$536,000Public Benefit$481,719

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 budgetThe Frick Collection: $2,023,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,332,049 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,070,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,015,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $806,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $560,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $500,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $442,719 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $337,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $204,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $184,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LIFE INC: $181,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $146,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $146,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $146,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $146,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFordham University: $117,016 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $89,419 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCaravan to Class: $70,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCH-A-LIFE: $69,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetThe American Classical Orchestra Inc: $67,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE INC: $66,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetSMILING GOAT RANCH INC: $61,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED IN LIGHT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $43,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGULLOTTA HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetNat King Cole Generation Hope Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe Land Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTOP HONORS INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPark County Environmental Council: $9,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER: $9,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE FOR ANIMALS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,961 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
  • Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds The New School ↗
  • Who funds Caravan to Class ↗

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.

T Rowe Price Program …Park County Community…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…United Way WorldwideNetwork for GoodThe Bank of America C…Silicon Valley Commun…
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD24.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Park County Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community 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 Selz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Selz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • People for Animals Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
17report 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 Selz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Selz 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 128 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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