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Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$192k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$39,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$192k33%
FY202418$240k50%
FY202314$156k50%
FY20229$125k56%
FY202113$98k69%
FY20207$59k43%
FY20197$51k29%
FY201811$33k82%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$347kHuman Services$198kHealth$171kFood & Nutrition$58kInternational$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kCommunity Improvement$42kPhilanthropy$27kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
WY
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heritage Wesleyan Church$192,0009n/a
Mercy Chefs Inc$168,40350%
Summit Church Inc$39,0004n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$36,00050%
Samaritan's Purse$31,00060%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$24,20010%
Better Health Foundation Melinda Gowey$20,00024%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$15,00020%
Foundation 2 Inc$10,00020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$7,50020%
Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($411k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $168,403 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBetter Health Foundation Melinda Gowey: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation 2 Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Life: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpowering Abilities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Initiative Haiti- Komonite Sante Inisyativ Dayiti: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Better Chicago: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Kingdom Trailriders: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHumane Society of Rock Island: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFamilies of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Quad Cities Community FoundationIA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Sheila Murphy Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way Quad Cities · Scott County Regional Authority · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

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About Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation

How much does Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation give?
Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $192,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Human Services (20%), Health (17%).
Who are Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heritage Wesleyan Church ($192k), Mercy Chefs Inc ($168k), Summit Church Inc ($39k).
Does Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quad Cities Community Foundation, Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation, Sheila Murphy Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx.
Where is Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation based?
Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

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 62 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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