· Private foundation
Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Immigrant and Refugee Law Center | $50,000 |
| City of Cincinnati | $40,250 |
| Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc | $38,400 |
| School Board School | $25,000 |
| Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation | $25,000 |
| League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund | $20,400 |
| Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio | $20,000 |
| Matriots Education Fund | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| League Of Women Voters Of The Cincinnati Area Education Fund | $16,000 |
| Communities United for Action | $15,000 |
| Northern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc | $15,000 |
| Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc dba LADD Inc | $15,000 |
| Invest in Neighborhoods | $15,000 |
| Fair Elections Center | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- CPCincinnati Public Radio Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +51%
- IIInvest in Neighborhoods Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +788%
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $128k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- GCGREATER CINCINNATI EARTH COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- TLTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $28k
- CPCOMMUNITY POLICE PARTNERING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
Local ballot issue committee
The league of women voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…
Ballot issue political action committee advocating for levy to support the homelessness population in Ohio.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The mission of Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC) is to ensure that the constitutional and statutory rights of Ohio crime victims are protected and enforced in state and federal jurisdictions in all 88 Ohio counties. To fulfill this…
To convene a high capacity group of donors that strategically leverage resources to achieve political and policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio by strengthening infrastructure.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Norwood Together. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 103 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 Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds Invest in Neighborhoods Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CINCINNATI AREA ↗
- Who funds School Board School ↗
- Who funds Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
- Who funds Immigrant & Refugee Law Center ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION TANK ↗
- Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds OHIO VOICE ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION ↗
- Who funds MATRIOTS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics -- DBA Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Interact for Health · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Duke Energy Foundation · Ohio State Bar Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005
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 Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government 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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