· Private foundation
Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of CHAS AND RUTH SELIGMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $80,000 |
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $20,000 |
| HOSEA HOUSE | $20,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE | $20,000 |
| THE POINT ARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $15,000 |
| FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY | $15,000 |
| REDWOOD REHABILITATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| ACUE | $10,000 |
| NEW PERCEPTIONS | $10,000 |
| UP SPRING | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +30%
- DCDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC7× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +31%
- MIMILESTONES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- STST TIMOTHY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $20k
- KCKENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
The carmelite sisters of the divine heart of jesus of kentucky strive to maintain our home as a true home away from home for our residents. our residents are senior citizens and disabled residents.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual. christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living, 24-hour skilled nursing…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tri-State Bleeding Disorder Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES INC ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE BLEEDING DISORDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Butler Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Duke Energy Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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