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Jf Seinsheimer Jr Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Jf Seinsheimer Jr 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$34kEducation$32kRecreation & Sports$32kHuman Services$12kAnimals$11kFood & Nutrition$10kCommunity Improvement$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$264k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTMB$3,950
GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$3,000
THE TEXAS SURF MUSEUM$3,000
GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS$2,550
GULF COAST BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$2,500
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY18–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $2k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $3k → 14%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 12 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$125k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +15%
  • GI
    GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • RL
    ROSENBERG LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • GC
    Galveston College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +238%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -48%
  • UN
    UTMB NEUROLOGY RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Sea Star Base Galveston
Recreation & Sports
2
Galveston Artist Residency
Arts & Culture
3
Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advocate for business

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4
Build Galveston

Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.

Community Improvement
5
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc

The mission of the Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) is to preserve and enhance Galveston Bay as a healthy and productive place for generations to come.

Environment
6
Galveston Children's Museum

The galveston children's museum provides a unique, hands-on environment where children play, explore, investigate, create, and discover.

Arts & Culture
7
Center for Transportation and Commerce

Operation of museum of transportation with emphasis on railroad transportation andartifacts, including rolling stock.

Arts & Culture
8
Vision Galveston

Vision Galveston's mission is to help turn Galveston into the best place to raise a family, uncover new opportunities, and grow the economy. Vision Galveston seeks to connect that vision with the resources needed for implementation.

Community Improvement
9
Galveston County Community Action Council Inc

The Councils mission is to enhance the quality of life of low-income families in Galveston, Fort Bend, Wharton, and Brazoria Counties by promoting self-sufficiency pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It also operates…

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10
Gaston College Foundation

The mission of the gaston college foundation, inc. is to raise, invest, administer and disburse funds exclusively for charitable, scientific or educational purposes for the benefit of gaston college.

Education
11
Scenic Galveston Inc

This organization's mission is to provide permanent protection and restoration of the natural coastal wetlands and the scenic native prairie habitat preserves.

Environment
12
Galveston Independent School District Educational Foundation Inc

The gisd educational foundation enriches the educational experience and prepares students for the future by providing financial support to educators, schools and students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston County Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Texas Surf Conservancy. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SURFRIDERS FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherSURFRIDERS FOUNDATIONROSENBERG LIBRARY: $12,000 · OtherROSENBERG LIBRARYSURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $11,500 · OtherSURFRIDER FOUNDATIONRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10,100 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEJOHN SEALY HOSPITALUTMB: $9,950 · OtherJOHN SEALY HOSPITALUTMBUTMB NEUROLOGY RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 · OtherUTMB NEUROLOGY RESEARCH FUNDUTMB-OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 · OtherUTMB-OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENTTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $11,000 · Other+5 moreGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON HISTORICAL F…Galveston College Foundation: $7,500 · EducationGalveston C…TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY: $5,500 · EducationTEXAS SURF …ROSENBERG LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · EducationROSENBERG L…GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,500 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $4,550 · Food & NutritionGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Human ServicesRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $1,500 · Human ServicesGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$86,550Arts & Culture$32,000Education$17,000Animals$10,500Philanthropy$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,550Human Services$4,000Community Improvement$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGalveston College Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY: $5,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $4,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROSENBERG LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1894 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSENBERG LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds 1894 INC ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS ↗

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.

Harris & Eliza Kempne…Ippolito Charitable F…The Moody FoundationThe Mary Moody Northe…Dr Leon Bromberg Char…Alice Taylor Gray Fou…The Grant Family FundUnited Way of Galvest…John P McGovern Found…Permanent Endowment F…Shell USA Company Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…
Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund IncTX26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · The Moody Foundation · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Alice Taylor Gray Foundation Acct #G02992 · The Grant Family Fund · United Way of Galveston Inc White · John P McGovern Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments 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 Jf Seinsheimer Jr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jf Seinsheimer Jr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 23 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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