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Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$255k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$250k0%
FY202415$255k0%
FY202311$205k0%
FY202216$230k25%
FY202114$185k21%
FY202013$140kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$525kEnvironment$455kArts & Culture$120kHealth$105kHuman Services$45kFood & Nutrition$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Park Foundation$290,00060%
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$135,00060%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$105,00060%
Quail Botanical Gardens Foundation$90,00061%
Rancho Coastal Humane Society$90,00060%
Helping Homeless Felines$70,000517%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$65,00060%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$50,00050%
Oceanside Museum of Art$50,00051%
Cat Adoption Service$40,0004n/a
The Salvation Army$35,0002n/a
Humane World for Animals Inc$30,00030%
Cabrillo National Monument Foundation$20,00041%
San Diego Hunger Coalition$15,00021%
The Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Park Foundation: $290,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Humane Society and Spca: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetQuail Botanical Gardens Foundation: $90,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRancho Coastal Humane Society: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHelping Homeless Felines: $70,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOceanside Museum of Art: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo National Monument Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSan Diego Hunger Coalition: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation

How much does Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation give?
Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (42%), Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Park Foundation ($290k), San Diego Humane Society and Spca ($135k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($105k).
Does Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation based?
Margaret R Seeley Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 20 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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