· Private foundation
The Sigel Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $53,750 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS | $25,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $10,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS | $10,000 |
| CAPE COD SYNAGOGUE | $5,912 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE METRO WEST | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS | $3,050 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $3,000 |
| FALMOUTH JEWISH CONGREGATION | $2,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,442 |
| NAMI MASSACHUSETTS | $2,000 |
| JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CAPE COD NEIGHBORS FUND | $1,000 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CCCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue +41%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $113k · revenue +46%- CCCompassionate Care ALS Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FAFALMOUTH ART CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
- CTCAMP TEVYAone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
William james college strives to be a preeminent college of psychology that integrates rigorous academic instruction with extensive field education and close attention to professional development. we assume an ongoing social responsibility…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To operate as a noncommercial educational fm broadcast public radio station for purposes of providing a cultural, educational, literary, scientific, artistic and musical outlet for the area community.
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
At afcc, our mission is to foster and enhance a dynamic and inclusive arts and cultural landscape accessible to all within the region. as the designated local arts agency (laa) for barnstable county, we serve as the pivotal hub for…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 67 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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MA FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BELOW THE BELT WOMEN'S CANCER OUTREACH 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Zammer Foundation of Cape Cod · Hermann Foundation Inc
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 Sigel 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% 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.