· Private foundation
Joyce & Randy Seckman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of JOYCE & RANDY SECKMAN 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER | $2,500 |
| NMDP | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,650 |
| CITY SPRINGS THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| EMORY EYE CENTER FUND FOR EXCELLENCE | $1,000 |
| GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALUMNI FUND | $250 |
| GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS | $250 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION | $200 |
| OSBORNE HIGH SCHOOL PTA | $200 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $150 |
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HAHISTIOCYTOSIS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +54%
- CNCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +88%
- NFNMDP FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
- DTDELTA TAU DELTA ED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FHForsyth Humane Societyone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Dedicated to alleviating the pet over-population problems in georgia. house and place homeless dogs and cats into loving homes, offer access to low-cost vaccines, spay & neuter procedures, promote humane education and responsible pet…
Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
To end senseless euthanasia and stop pet over-population in Georgia through targed spay/neuter programming.
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sheila Fest Foundation Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HISTIOCYTOSIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETA UPSILON CHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Humane Society ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Walton Lacrosse Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds City Springs Theatre ↗
- Who funds CHINA RESCUE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGIA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Joyce & Randy Seckman 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.