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Seymour Feldman Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 20-3555993. Reported 89 grants totalling $626,250 to 48 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$626,250granted, 2020-2023
48organizations funded
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,645,461assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Seymour Feldman Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,800 and $10,000; the smallest was $75 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
12 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Centurion FoundationNew York, NY$108,500442023
The Washington Institute for Near East PolicyWashington, DC$101,200442023
Nassau County Pipes & DrumsLevittown, NY$52,900332022
Temple Shaaray TefilaNew York, NY$51,440442023
Jack Martin FundNew York, NY$40,500442023
ShlofmitzJerico, NY$35,000332023
Harold & Ruth Allen FoundationGreat Neck, NY$32,500332023
Signal 30 FundLatham, NY$20,000222022
The Buoniconti FundMiami, FL$16,500222023
Nassau County PoliceMineola, NY$15,200442023
Mount Sinai Dermatology Research FundNew York, NY$15,000112021
Crime Stoppers Suffolk CountyShirley, NY$11,500332022
Southampton Fresh Air HomeSouthampton, NY$11,000332023
AceWashington, DC$10,835442023
Suffolk County Police ReservesFarmingdale, NY$8,500332022
City SquashBronx, NY$5,750222023
Central Park ConservancyNew York, NY$5,500112023
Daniela Conte FdnDix Hills, NY$5,500222021
Jewish Federation of Palm BeachWest Palm Beach, FL$5,100332023
Bay Street TheaterSag Harbor, NY$5,000112023
Crime Comm of South FlPlantation, FL$5,000112020
East End HospiceWesthampton Beach, NY$5,000112021
Southampton Hospital FoundationSouthampton, NY$5,000222022
Temple Beth EmetCooper City, FL$5,000112023
Temple Beth EmethBrooklyn, NY$5,000112021
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$4,500112022
Glen Oaks Club Philanthropic FundOld Westbury, NY$4,000332022
The Drama LeagueNew York, NY$4,000112021
Hampton International Film FestivalEast Hampton, NY$3,600112023
101 E 69TH St ConservancyNew York, NY$3,500222022
Nys Fop Mem Lodge 100Nashville, TN$3,500112023
St Francis HospitalRoslyn, NY$2,950112023
American Cancer SocietyNew York, NY$2,500112020
Congregation Aabj&dWest Orange, NJ$2,500112021
Sea Cliff - Glen Head LionsSea Cliff, NY$2,500112021
Dunning Rievman & MacdonaldNew York, NY$2,470112023
Sp Riverhead Station FundEast Farmingdale, NY$2,000222023
Evergreen PresbyterianHicksville, NY$1,000112020
Squash UrbanoCartagena, Colombia$1,000112020
Suffolk County Crime StoppersYaphank, NY$1,000112021
New York Junior Tennis LeagueLong Island City, NY$750112021
Harlem Junior TennisNew York, NY$500112020
Quogue Village PbaQuogue, NY$500112022
Tunnels to TowersStaten Island, NY$500112022
Squash UrbanoBronx, NY$250112022
St Jude Childrens Research HospitalMemphis, TN$150112021
Bridge & Tunnel Officers FundMassapequa, NY$80112022
Friends AcademyLocust Valley, NY$75112020

21 of 48 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 58%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
11 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
International Affairs
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Medical Research
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202019$117,310$2,500
202126$168,350$3,000
202224$180,975$2,950
202320$159,615$4,300

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 75% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$471K
District of Columbia
$112K
Florida
$32K
Georgia
$4K
Tennessee
$4K
New Jersey
$2K
Colombia
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Seymour Feldman Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 277 Broadway 601, New York, NY, 10007. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-3555993 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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