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Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$563k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$866kHealth$644kArts & Culture$519kAnimals$231kFood & Nutrition$222kReligion$197kPhilanthropy$144kRecreation & Sports$141kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $397k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$12M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 98% of reported assets are held in Hancock Whitney Ima.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXPERIENCE$50,000
CITY OF BAY ST LOUIS MISSISSIPPI$48,557
HANCOCK HEALTH FOUNDATION THE$20,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI$20,000
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$20,000
BETHESDA FREE CLINIC (BETHESDA FREE HEALTH CLINIC OF D'IBERVILLE)$15,000
HANCOCK YOUTH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$15,000
LOAVES AND FISHES$15,000
THE ARTS HANCOCK COUNTY$15,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY$15,000
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$12,000
HOGS FOR THE CAUSE$11,867
PEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (AKA PRCC ALUMNI ASSOC$10,000
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN$10,000
HOME OF GRACE$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 24%HARCH HYPERBARIC INSTITUTE: $10k → 23%MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4k → 19%PNEUMA - WINDS OF HOPE: $10k → 15%PNEUMA - WINDS OF HOPE: $10k → 15%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

VT
MN
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
CT
CA
CO
DE
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 105 repeat orgs$526k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
62

Total granted

$3.2M
$410k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+24%

Still filing today

39%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • CE
    Coast Episcopal Schools Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $146k · revenue +13%
  • TH
    The Hancock Health Foundation Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $142k · revenue +121% · 94% of their budget
  • MA
    MISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM
    5× · 2019–2023 · $105k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • CF
    CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +378%
  • AM
    ALZHEIMER'S MISSISSIPPI (FKA ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION MISSISSIPPI CHAPTER)
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • MS
    MARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -7%
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
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion
2
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

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…

Health
3
Deep South Today

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in Shreveport

The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.

Philanthropy
5
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

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…

Education
6
Ms Museum of Natural Science Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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8
Health Care Foundation of North Ms

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…

Health
9
Foundation for Mississippi History

To conduct fundraising efforts to help support and promote the activities, programs and projects of the mississippi department of archives and history.

Philanthropy
10
Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights
11
Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain

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.

Environment
12
Mississippi State Medical Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 178 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
40/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARITIME SEAFOOD MUSEUM: $169,000 · OtherMARITIME SEAFOOD MUSEUMCoast Episcopal Schools Inc: $145,650 · OtherCoast Episcopal Schools IncThe Hancock Health Foundation Inc: $142,000 · OtherThe Hancock Health Foundation IncCITY OF BAY ST LOUIS MISSISSIPPI: $116,057 · Other+125 more: $1,926,721 · Other+125 moreST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY: $65,000 · HealthST VINCEN…BETHESDA FREE HEALTH CLINIC OF D'IBERVIL LE INC: $60,000 · HealthBETHESDA …MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $60,000 · HealthMENTAL HE…THE LILY PAD FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthTHE LILY …INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF: $40,000 · HealthINTERNATI…UNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthUNITED MS…+7 more: $32,779 · Health+7 moreCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY: $80,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationHANCOCK RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXIA: $22,500 · EducationMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationJENNA ROBINSON CHARITIES: $16,000 · EducationBRING ON THE MUSIC INC: $10,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $12,500 · EducationMISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM: $105,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $40,500 · AnimalsFriends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County: $30,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXPERIENCE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM: $22,000 · Arts & CultureINFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePRAIRIE BELT BLUES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $70,000 · PhilanthropyHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $56,286 · PhilanthropyTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyFeeding the Gulf Coast: $81,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES INC: $60,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,499,428Health$317,779Education$246,500Animals$178,000Arts & Culture$171,000Philanthropy$153,286Food & Nutrition$143,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCoast Episcopal Schools Inc: $145,650 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetThe Hancock Health Foundation Inc: $142,000 over 6y, 94% of budgetMISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM: $105,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $81,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY: $80,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $70,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY: $65,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA FREE HEALTH CLINIC OF D'IBERVIL LE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetHOME OF GRACE CORPORATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Please Foundation: $60,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $60,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $56,286 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXPERIENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI: $40,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LILY PAD FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County: $30,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES AND PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHANCOCK RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXIA: $22,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM: $22,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHancock County Food Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPNEUMA - WINDS OF HOPE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetMCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC: $17,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetJENNA ROBINSON CHARITIES: $16,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRING ON THE MUSIC INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HYPERBARIC INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $10,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMEBACK COOLERS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUART HALL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE BURR AREA COUNCIL 304: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 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 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 PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA FREE HEALTH CLINIC OF D'IBERVIL LE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOME OF GRACE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
  • 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 Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Gulf Coast Community …Mississippi Power Fou…Mississippi Gulf Reso…Community Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Mississippi Humanitie…Engelstad Family Foun…Pinebelt FoundationThe Greater New Orlea…Paul T Benton Charita…Van Devender Family F…Ergon Foundation Inc
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncMS42.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Leo W Seal Jr Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 178 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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