FundersNew Hampshire

Fred a Seigel and Donna P Seigel

North Hampton, NH · EIN 26-6158312. Reported 61 grants totalling $4,174,250 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$4,174,250granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,452,099assets, 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. Fred a Seigel and Donna P Seigel 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 $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $65,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $450,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
15 grants
$100,000 and Up
13 grants

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
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA$1,575,000442024
Camp Harbor View FoundationBoston, MA$550,000442024
Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, MA$500,000442024
Marty Stuart Center IncPhiladelphia, MS$360,000442024
The Better Angels SocietyWashington, DC$350,000442024
Foundation for the National Institutes of HealthNorth Bethesda, MD$300,000442024
The Corey C Griffin Charitable FoundationFramingham, MA$135,000442024
Baylor College of MedicineHouston, TX$100,000222024
Exeter Hospital IncExeter, NH$100,000332024
Citizens CountHampton, NH$40,000442024
The Ocular Immunology and Uveitis FoundationWaltham, MA$35,000222022
Boston Healthcare for the HomelessBoston, MA$25,000112022
The American Independent FoundationWashington, DC$25,000112022
Wright MuseumWolfeboro, NH$25,000442024
Breakthrough New YorkNew York, NY$10,000112022
Edward M Kennedy InstituteBoston, MA$10,000112022
March to the Top AfricaWoodland Hills, CA$10,000112023
New England CollegeHenniker, NH$10,000112022
Portsmouth Nh 400TH IncPortsmouth, NH$5,000112023
New Hampshire Art AssociationPortsmouth, NH$2,000222024
MayhewBristol, NH$1,000112021
National World War II MuseumNew Orleans, LA$1,000112021
New Hampshire Catholic CharitiesManchester, NH$1,000112021
Opportunities for InclusionWaltham, MA$1,000112021
Step UpLos Angeles, CA$1,000112021
Step Up ParentsPortsmouth, NH$1,000112024
East Boston Social CenterBoston, MA$500112023
The Mayhew ProgramBristol, NH$500112023
Holy Name CathedralChicago, IL$250112021

13 of 29 (45%) 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 61%, 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
10 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$926,750$12,500
202216$1,075,000$25,000
202314$1,021,000$37,500
202413$1,151,500$50,000

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. 68% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$2.8M
District of Columbia
$375K
Mississippi
$360K
Maryland
$300K
New Hampshire
$186K
Texas
$100K
California
$11K
New York
$10K

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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 $25,000. 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 Massachusetts.
  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 Fred a Seigel and Donna P Seigel's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 33 Woodland Road, North Hampton, NH, 03862. 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 26-6158312 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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