· Private foundation
Douglas W & Virginia W Sesler Private Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of Douglas W & Virginia W Sesler Private Family Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Douglas W & Virginia W Sesler Private Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $83k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k28 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $18,000 |
| POINT O' WOODS FOUNDATION INC (HISTORICAL FOUNDATION) | $15,000 |
| THE REFORMED CHURCH OF BRONXVILLE | $12,500 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| MIDNIGHT RUN | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (KELLOGG) | $3,000 |
| FSH SOCIETY INC (NOW FSHD SOCIETY) | $2,000 |
| THE CHURCH AT POINT O' WOODS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | $1,200 |
| SPARK YOUTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PELHAM COMMUNITY ROWING ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| YALE PLEDGE YWC YALE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue +15%- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +72%
- PCPELHAM COMMUNITY ROWING ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- POPOINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -36%
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +19%
- MRMIDNIGHT RUN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
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Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Douglas W & Virginia W Sesler Private Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas W & Virginia W Sesler Private Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
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