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Ker-Seymer Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ker-Seymer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$81kEducation$33kHuman Services$19kInternational$10kHousing & Shelter$9kFood & Nutrition$9kEnvironment$9kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$792
Median grant
5
States reached
$450k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Museum of Contemporary Art of GA$3,500
High Museum of Art$2,500
Ansley Park Beautification Foundation$1,536
Hambridge Center$1,500
Intowm Colaborative Ministries$1,034
WABE$1,000
St Lukes Episcopal$1,000
Georgia Committee of NWMA$1,000
Atlanta Womens Foundation$1,000
South Arts Inc$1,000
PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center$1,000
Atlanta Printmakers Studio$792
ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER$550
Atlanta Ballet$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Lustgarten Foundation: $500 → 6%Charity Navigator: $50 → 7%Lustgarten Foundation: $200 → 6%Charity Navigator: $50 → 7%Charity Navigator: $50 → 7%Covenant House: $500 → 17%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $2k → 13%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $2k → 13%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $1k → 13%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $1k → 13%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $1k → 13%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $1k → 13%Intowm Colaborative Ministries: $700 → 13%Midtown Assistence Center: $500 → 13%Crossroads Community Ministry: $500 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 32 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
27

Total granted

$171k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+7%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BS
    BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +128%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +722%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • GP
    GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • GP
    GiGi's Playhouse Atlanta
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Inc

Atlanta celebrates photography (dba atlanta center for photography) (acp) advances new perspectives in lens-based media from the american south. through artwork commissions, community collaborations, and dynamic programs, acp supports…

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Art Papers Inc

Atlanta-based and globally engaged, art papers serves the creative community and the culturally curious by expanding the dialogue around contemporary art and culture, exploring the ways they affect and reflect human experience. we do this…

Arts & Culture
4
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
5
Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture
6
Flux Projects Inc

Commissioning public art that invites audiences in atlanta to explore the citys sites and stories as a means to imagining its future possibilities.

Arts & Culture
7
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

—
10
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc

To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.

Arts & Culture
11
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
12
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Ballet Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

45 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. 45 of the 72 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Hambidge Center: $14,500 · OtherThe Hambidge CenterTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $6,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTSPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $5,610 · OtherPiedmont Park Conservancy IncSt Lukes Episcopal: $4,000 · OtherSt Lukes EpiscopalThe High Art Museum: $4,000 · OtherThe High Art MuseumGeorgia Public Broadcasting: $3,500 · OtherANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $2,786 · OtherTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · OtherTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INCSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+31 more: $25,135 · Other+31 moreTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC: $27,700 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AR…ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER…ATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC: $5,550 · Arts & CultureATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER…+9 more: $4,932 · Arts & Culture+9 moreBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIV…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…TECHNOSERVE INC: $1,500 · International+4 more: $2,146 · International+4 moreINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $7,786 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $700 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 · Human ServicesCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $500 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $150 · Human ServicesATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO INC: $4,992 · EducationGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $2,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $502 · EducationCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Environment350ORG: $1,000 · Environment
Other$72,031Arts & Culture$52,182International$39,646Human Services$10,136Food & Nutrition$9,000Education$7,494Environment$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC: $27,700 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $7,786 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $5,610 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC: $5,550 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO INC: $4,992 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $2,786 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $516 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $502 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC4 ATLANTA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALLANWOLDE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAWCHANGE INC: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC: $146 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER INC: $107 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 BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds BURNAWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds THE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …AEC TrustThe Arthur M Blank Fa…Tull Charitable Found…THDF II Inc DBA The H…Plummer Fdn-CashThe John and Rosemary…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainJewish Federation of …Tim & Lauren Schrager…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA35.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Plummer Fdn-Cash · The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tim & Lauren Schrager Family 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 Ker-Seymer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ker-Seymer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 72 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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