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Chris & Irene Seth Family Foundation at a glance

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Chris & Irene Seth Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$597kEducation$165kFood & Nutrition$36kAnimals$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kMembership Benefit$18kArts & Culture$12kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$30,000
THE WOODHALL SCHOOL$20,000
TREVOR PROJECT$15,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE LEARNING FOUNDATION INC$10,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$10,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$10,000
PROUND SPIRIT HORSE SANCTUARY$7,000
FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN$6,000
ACLU$5,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FNDN-HAWAII STRONG$5,000
MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION$3,000
SIGMA BETA SORORITY INC$3,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM$2,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM: $2k → 8%CHILD AND FAMILY CHARITIES: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$849k · 19 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
5

Total granted

$849k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+44%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +62%
  • TW
    THE WOODHALL SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +17%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +138%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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2
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc

Gleaners' mission is to be a leader in the fight against hunger. we do this by joining with others to optimize equitable access to nutritious food for those of us facing hunger and working to overcome the conditions causing food insecurity.

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3
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
6
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
11
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christian Community Response Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FDN: $250,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FDNTHE WOODHALL SCHOOL INC: $135,000 · OtherTHE WOODHALL SCHOOL INCTHE LEARNING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE LEARNING FOUNDATION INCPROUND SPIRIT HORSE SANCTUARY: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $94,500 · Other+12 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncRush University Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthRush University Medical CenterNAMI National: $30,000 · HealthNAMI NationalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDER…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $6,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionWEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionWOLF PARK INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentChristian Community Response Team: $2,200 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesChild and Family Charities: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$529,500Health$299,000Civil Rights$25,000Food & Nutrition$17,000Environment$11,000Human Services$4,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODHALL SCHOOL INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetNAMI National: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA BETA SORORITY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF PARK INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Community Response Team: $2,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPILOT LIGHT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chris & Irene Seth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chris & Irene Seth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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