· Private foundation
Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Hancock Whitney Ima.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXPERIENCE | $50,000 |
| CITY OF BAY ST LOUIS MISSISSIPPI | $48,557 |
| FEEDING THE GULF COAST | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI | $20,000 |
| HANCOCK HEALTH FOUNDATION THE | $20,000 |
| HANCOCK YOUTH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| BETHESDA FREE CLINIC (BETHESDA FREE HEALTH CLINIC OF D'IBERVILLE) | $15,000 |
| THE ARTS HANCOCK COUNTY | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY | $15,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $15,000 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $11,867 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI | $10,000 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY DEV FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
105 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- CECoast Episcopal Schools Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $146k · revenue +13%
- THThe Hancock Health Foundation Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $142k · revenue +9% · 94% of their budget
- MAMISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM5× · 2019–2023 · $105k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +378%
- AMALZHEIMER'S MISSISSIPPI (FKA ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION MISSISSIPPI CHAPTER)one grant, 2022 · $40k
- MSMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +37%
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.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
Mississippi gulf coast chamber of commerce, inc., a mississippi non-profit corporation (the "chamber") connects, informs, advocates and develops. the chamber is a membership organization that fosters leadership and the advancement of the…
Health care foundation of north mississippi is operated exclusively for the purpose of raising, receiving, and administering funds (for medical, scientific, educational and charitable purposes), to assist hospital and non-profit…
To conduct fundraising efforts to help support and promote the activities, programs and projects of the mississippi department of archives and history.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To conserve, promote, and protect the open spaces and green places of ecological cultural or scenic significance in the counties of the mississippi coastal plain.
A physician organization serving as an advocate for its members, their patients and the public health. the association promotes ethical, educational and clinical standards for the medical profession and the enactment of just medical laws.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Waterwheel 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 178 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 Coast Episcopal Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds The Hancock Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FREE HEALTH CLINIC OF D'IBERVIL LE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds HOME OF GRACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LILY PAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County ↗
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Shell USA Company Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Paul T Benton Charitable Trust · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation 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 Leo W Seal Jr Family 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.
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.
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