· Private foundation
Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| HELPING HOMELESS FELINES | $15,000 |
| LIONS TIGERS & BEARS BIG CAT AND EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $10,000 |
| OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $10,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $10,000 |
| ASPCA | $10,000 |
| CABRILLO NATIONAL MONUMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +208%
- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +48%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION LANDS INITIATIVEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $10k
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +42%
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Protection of animal rights
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cabrillo National Monument Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HOMELESS FELINES ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo National Monument Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Margaret R Seeley 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.
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.