seligman was also a fundraiser for, benefactor to, and activist in, a large number of charitable and political organisations including the american society in london, the anglo-jewish association (lobbying against oppression of serbian jews), the german association (raising funds for those wounded or made destitute by the franco-prussian war), the mansion house committee (raising funds for distressed jews in russia), the eighty club in london (social and political), and the jew's deaf and dumb home (lip-reading for deaf and dumb), founded by baroness m. de rothschild, of which seligman was the treasurer in 1875.