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· Private foundation

George J & Effie L Seay

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$203kEducation$160kArts & Culture$150kHealth$147kFood & Nutrition$128kYouth Development$113kCrime & Legal$89kPhilanthropy$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $161k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SWVA$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ART 180 INC$15,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER RICHMOND$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN$11,000
MEALS ON WHEELS CHESAPEAKE$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SWVA$10,000
HEALTH BRIGADE$10,000
BLUE SKY FUND$10,000
RESTORATION IMMIGRATION LEGAL AID$8,500
BOYS TO MEN MENTORING NETWORK OF VA$7,500
SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC$7,500
LYNCHBURG GROWS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDHELP INC: $3k → 11%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $10k → 9%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $10k → 16%MAIN ST CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR INC: $15k → 6%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $10k → 7%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $15k → 9%MAIN ST CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR INC: $10k → 6%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $10k → 9%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $15k → 6%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%YWCA RICHMOND: $15k → 22%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $20k → 9%ReESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 22%ReESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $10k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $20k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$315k · 12 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
60

Total granted

$315k
$745k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HB
    HEALTH BRIGADE
    2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • CV
    CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +81%
  • MS
    MAIN STREET CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    2× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • EH
    ELK HILL FARM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • SF
    SHALOM FARMSINC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
2
ReWork Richmond Inc

Our mission is to empower underemployed adults living in Richmond's East End to obtain the skills and necessary support to qualify for and ultimately gain thriving careers. Our commitment is to partner with each participant until they are…

Employment
3
Abilities Richmond Inc

Abilities richmond envisions a world where all individuals with developmental disabilities and other barriers will have the opportunity to participate in a full range of life activities. competitive employment in support of this vision.

Human Services
4
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
5
SeniorNavigatorcom

SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…

Community Improvement
6
Startup Virginia Inc

Startup virginia is a non-profit, high-growth-business incubator, dedicated to building a long-term, sustainable economy for virginia. we connect our startup community to exceptional mentors and extensive programs in a dynamic workspace.

Community Improvement
7
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
8
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
9
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
10
Virginia Mentoring Partnership

Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…

Crime & Legal
11
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
12
Virginia Learns

Virginia learns brings together business and education leaders with the shared goal of creating a more innovative, relevant and equitable public education system in virginia.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art for the Journey. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Richmond Professional & Com…Family Support ServicesAffordable Housing and Resi…Professional Trade Associat…Health Support and Recovery…Private K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr17%27%35–55yr14%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%29%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr17%28%35–55yr14%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
12%
2,629/21,488

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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
40/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (NOVA) — $30,000 · OtherHEALTH BRIGADE — $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · OtherVA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $30,000 · OtherELK HILL FARM INC — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN — $22,000 · Other+37 more — $408,381 · Other+37 moreMAIN STREET CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET CHILD DEV…SHALOM FARMSINC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINCNEXTUP RVA — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVAJewish Family Services Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesJewish Family Service…RE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND…ST JOSEPH'S VILLA — $20,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLAYWCA RICHMOND — $15,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDNOVA ScriptsCentral — $15,000 · Human ServicesNOVA ScriptsCentralCircle Center Adult Day Services — $15,000 · Human ServicesCircle Center Adult D…LIBERTY'S PROMISE — $10,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY FARMS — $10,000 · Human ServicesTogether We Bake — $10,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL HOME PLUS — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesART 180 Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 IncArt For The Journey — $20,000 · Arts & CultureArt For The…WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM KIN…VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SY…VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA RE…SOUNDSCAPES INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUNDSCAPES…SANDLER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSANDLER CEN…BOWER CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LITERACY LAB — $35,000 · EducationHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationJOBSRVA INC — $10,000 · EducationEDU-FUTURO — $10,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $5,000 · EducationOrange Free Clinic Inc — $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $15,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE — $10,000 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER — $10,000 · HealthTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $17,500 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $15,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $15,000 · Food & NutritionALLEGHENY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Food & NutritionGIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER RICHMOND — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsJacobs Chance Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE CYCLE INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$600,381Human Services$228,000Arts & Culture$120,000Education$80,000Health$60,000Food & Nutrition$57,500Recreation & Sports$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN STREET CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER RICHMOND — $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOrange Free Clinic Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetART 180 Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEXTUP RVA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetArt For The Journey — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOUNTAIN FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAL LIFE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI - VIRGINIA — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNOVA ScriptsCentral — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCircle Center Adult Day Services — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOBSRVA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetA PLACE TO BE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE DAN RIVER REGION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLEGACY FARMS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH RICHMOND ADULT DAY CARE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDSCAPES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJacobs Chance Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSANDLER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTogether We Bake — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEDU-FUTURO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGHENY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Dominion Energy Chari…The Community Foundat…Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Me…Herndon FoundationRichmond Memorial Hea…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…The Pauley Family Fou…Carmax FoundationAnnabella R Jenkins F…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…The William H - John …Sentara Health
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA58.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Mem Uw Egj · Herndon Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Sentara Health

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 George J & Effie L Seay 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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