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Seymour Feldman Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 20-3555993. Reported 111 grants totalling $782,495 to 53 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$782,495granted, 2020-2024
53recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,953,870assets, 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
15 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
52 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Washington Institute for Near East PolicyWashington, DC$128,800552024
Centurion FoundationNew York, NY$119,500552024
Temple Shaaray TefilaNew York, NY$66,135552024
Harold & Ruth Allen FoundationGreat Neck, NY$57,500442024
Nassau County Pipes & DrumsLevittown, NY$52,900332022
ShlofmitzJerico, NY$45,000442024
Jack Martin FundNew York, NY$43,000552024
Signal 30 FundLatham, NY$40,000332024
Nassau County PoliceMineola, NY$18,100552024
Southampton Hospital FoundationSouthampton, NY$17,000332024
The Buoniconti FundMiami, FL$16,500222023
Mount Sinai Dermatology Research FundNew York, NY$15,000112021
Southampton Fresh Air HomeSouthampton, NY$14,400442024
Crime Stoppers Suffolk CountyShirley, NY$11,500332022
AceWashington, DC$11,235552024
City SquashBronx, NY$10,750332024
Central Park ConservancyNew York, NY$9,500222024
Suffolk County Police ReservesFarmingdale, NY$8,500332022
Daniela Conte FdnDix Hills, NY$5,500222021
St Francis HospitalRoslyn, NY$5,150222024
Jewish Federation of Palm BeachWest Palm Beach, FL$5,100332023
Bay Street TheaterSag Harbor, NY$5,000112023
Belev EchadNew York, NY$5,000112024
Crime Comm of South FlPlantation, FL$5,000112020
East End HospiceWesthampton Beach, NY$5,000112021
Temple Beth EmetCooper City, FL$5,000112023
Temple Beth EmethBrooklyn, NY$5,000112021
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$4,500112022
Nys Fop Mem Lodge 100Nashville, TN$4,500222024
101 E 69TH St ConservancyNew York, NY$4,250332024
Glen Oaks Club Philanthropic FundOld Westbury, NY$4,000332022
The Drama LeagueNew York, NY$4,000112021
Police Reserves of SuffolkYaphank, NY$3,800112024
Hampton International Film FestivalEast Hampton, NY$3,600112023
Sp Riverhead Station FundEast Farmingdale, NY$3,000332024
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
CitibankNew York, NY$2,000112024
Tacuders Mem FundLexington, MA$1,500112024
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
Squash UrbanoNew Haven, CT$500112024
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

24 of 53 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 48 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Health Care
14 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Human Services
7 grants
International Affairs
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Arts & Culture
4 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
202422$156,245$3,600

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

76% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$596K
District of Columbia
$140K
Florida
$32K
Tennessee
$5K
Georgia
$4K
New Jersey
$2K
Massachusetts
$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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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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