· Private foundation
The Sigal Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $20,000 |
| National Gallery of Art | $10,000 |
| The Phillips Collection | $10,000 |
| National Gallery of Art | $10,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Washington | $10,000 |
| NYU Center for Ancient Studies | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Foundation for City College | $5,000 |
| Weizmann Institute of Science | $5,000 |
| Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) | $4,400 |
| Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) | $4,350 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $2,500 |
| Hunter College Elementary School | $2,200 |
| Hampton Cove Elementary School PTA | $2,200 |
| Dwight School Foundation | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Sigal Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 40%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +57%
- NGNational Gallery of Art8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +57%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART6× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- DCDC CONSTRUCTION ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- FEFAMILY EQUALITY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $13k
- TGThe George Washington Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +30%
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.
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds DC STUDENTS CONSTRUCTION TRADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds TAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sigal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sigal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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