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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.

$186k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Sigel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$148k8%
FY202317$171k18%
FY202219$108k16%
FY202119$145k26%
FY202026$163k27%
FY201927$270k41%
FY201823$307k35%
FY201725$208kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$533kHealth$377kPhilanthropy$349kArts & Culture$342kEducation$128kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$13kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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CT
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc$265,82583%
Trustees of Clark University$112,60040%
Compassionate Care ALS Inc$80,00043%
Music Worcester Inc$36,00070%
Falmouth Jewish Congregation Inc$23,3407n/a
Congregation Bnai Shalom Inc$20,7667n/a
Worcester Art Museum$15,00030%
Cape Cod Synagogue Inc$11,6623n/a
Falmouth Service Center Inc$11,00070%
Jewish Healthcare Center Inc$9,00050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($860k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sigel Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCotuit Center for the Arts Inc: $265,825 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $112,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMusic Worcester Inc: $36,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWorcester Art Museum: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Service Center Inc: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Healthcare Center Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJoy of Music Program Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNational Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalmer Choice Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Cape Cod Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbby Kelley Foster House Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Massachusetts Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapabilities Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndependence House Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCape Arts & Entertainment Inc: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Raveis Charitable Fund Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeritage Museums and Gardens Inc: $1,175 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester Children's Chorus Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSave Popponessett Bay Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fairwinds Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Arts Center in Chatham Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Sigel Family Foundation

How much does The Sigel Family Foundation give?
The Sigel Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $186,354 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sigel Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Health (20%), Philanthropy (19%).
Who are The Sigel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc ($266k), Trustees of Clark University ($113k), Compassionate Care ALS Inc ($80k).
Does The Sigel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sigel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sigel Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust, Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc.
Where is The Sigel Family Foundation based?
The Sigel Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 67 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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