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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of JEFF AND SUSIE SEITZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH$39,000
MERCY CHEFS$37,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$24,200
SUMMIT CHURCH$12,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$10,000
CCC FOOD PANTRY$10,000
GENESIS FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$10,000
SHEPHERD CENTER REHABILITATION$6,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
FOUNDATION 2$5,000
SHRINERS CHILDREN HOSPITAL$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US$3,000
ASPCA$3,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $24k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $45k → 20%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $1k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $38k → 20%MERCY CHEFS: $33k → 20%MERCY CHEFS: $30k → 20%MERCY CHEFS: $24k → 20%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$780k · 23 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
31

Total granted

$780k
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

39%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MC
    MERCY CHEFS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $168k · revenue +147%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +145%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS QC & WEST IL
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
5
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
6
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…

Housing & Shelter
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
Veterinarians Without Borders Usa

Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…

International
11
Robert Irvine Foundation Inc

The robert irvine foundation is a not-for-profit entity and is tax exempt under 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code (irc). the organization supports and strengthens the physical and mental well-being of our service members, veterans,…

Human Services
12
CJ3 Foundation

Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spinal Muscular Atrophy 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionDevelopmental Disabilities …Fallen First Responder Supp…Food Pantries & Assistance
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 38 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%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%45%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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,536

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

27 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HERITAGE WESLEYAN CHURCH — $192,000 · OtherHERITAGE WESLEYAN CHURCHCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH — $75,500 · OtherST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCHCCC FOOD PANTRY — $53,250 · OtherCCC FOOD PANTRYLEE BUILDING INDUSTRY BUILDERS CARE — $40,850 · OtherLEE BUILDING INDUSTRY BUILDERS CARESUMMIT CHURCH INC — $39,000 · OtherSUMMIT CHURCH INC+39 more — $177,200 · Other+39 moreMERCY CHEFS INC — $168,403 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $24,200 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $7,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,250 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $36,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $5,000 · HealthEMPOWERING ABILITIES — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $31,000 · ReligionBETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationSTEAM ON WHEELS — $1,500 · EducationSPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $4,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc — $3,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCK ISLAND — $1,000 · Animals
Other$677,800Human Services$201,353Health$47,000Religion$31,000Philanthropy$21,000Education$17,500Animals$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetYOUNG LIFE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $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 budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCK ISLAND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC
  • Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation
  • Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE HAITI- KOMONITE SANTE INISYATIV DAYITI
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc
  • Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS

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.

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

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 Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jeff and Susie Seitz Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 62 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.

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