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Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation at a glance

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Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$466k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$942kHuman Services$293kArts & Culture$268kEducation$253kEnvironment$253kCommunity Improvement$252kCrime & Legal$232kScience & Tech$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $389k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Immigrant and Refugee Law Center$50,000
City of Cincinnati$40,250
Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc$38,400
Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation$25,000
School Board School$25,000
League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund$20,400
Matriots Education Fund$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio$20,000
League Of Women Voters Of The Cincinnati Area Education Fund$16,000
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc dba LADD Inc$15,000
Invest in Neighborhoods$15,000
Ohio Voice$15,000
Fair Elections Center$15,000
Invest in Neighborhoods$15,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Communities United for Action: $15k → 16%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION: $10k → 16%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION: $10k → 16%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION: $10k → 16%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $25k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $20k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $15k → 16%Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc dba LADD Inc: $15k → 16%LADD INC: $15k → 16%LADD INC: $15k → 16%Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio: $12k → 16%SEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $7k → 16%COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%YMCA of Greater Cincinnati: $10k → 16%GREATER CINCINNATI HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 51 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
47

Total granted

$2.4M
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CP
    Cincinnati Public Radio Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +51%
  • II
    Invest in Neighborhoods Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +788%
  • NK
    NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $128k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREATER CINCINNATI EARTH COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • CP
    COMMUNITY POLICE PARTNERING CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
2
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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3
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
4
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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5
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

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…

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6
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

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7
League of Women Voters of Ohio

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…

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8
Cincinnati Action for Housing Now

Ballot issue political action committee advocating for levy to support the homelessness population in Ohio.

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9
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement
10
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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11
Justice League

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…

Crime & Legal
12
Ohio Progressive Collaborative

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF CINCINNATI: $194,531 · OtherCITY OF CINCINNATIPeaslee Neighborhood Center Inc: $100,000 · OtherPeaslee Neighborhood Center IncCINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO WVXU: $65,000 · OtherHamilton County Office of the County Administrator: $62,248 · OtherCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $58,500 · OtherACTION TANK: $55,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherGREEN UMBRELLA: $55,000 · OtherOHIO VOICE: $54,500 · Other+56 more: $766,756 · Other+56 moreNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $128,000 · EducationNORTHERN KEN…School Board School: $100,000 · EducationSchool Board…MATRIOTS EDUCATION FUND: $37,350 · EducationMATRIOTS EDU…Law and Leadership Institute LLC: $17,500 · EducationLaw and Lead…+4 more: $31,636 · Education+4 moreLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CINCINNATI AREA: $117,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF W…Fair Elections Center: $80,000 · Civil RightsFair Electi…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $60,200 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF W…OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $25,000 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTIC…OHIO DEBATE COMMISSION INC: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $160,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati…The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation: $80,000 · Arts & CultureThe Greate…Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics -- DBA Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati Foundation: $20,960 · Arts & CultureHispanics …Invest in Neighborhoods Inc: $140,000 · Community ImprovementInvest in…NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: $35,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL …The Center For Local Government: $13,500 · Community ImprovementThe Cente…URBAN APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY COALITION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementHUMAN SERVICES CHAMBER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $10,500 · Community ImprovementGROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR NONPROFITS: $10,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $11,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION: $45,000 · Human ServicesYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $15,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 · Human ServicesSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC: $7,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesImmigrant & Refugee Law Center: $75,000 · Crime & LegalNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC: $27,000 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,462,035Education$314,486Civil Rights$297,200Arts & Culture$260,960Community Improvement$243,000Human Services$204,000Crime & Legal$122,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInvest in Neighborhoods Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $128,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CINCINNATI AREA: $117,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetPeaslee Neighborhood Center Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetSchool Board School: $100,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetFair Elections Center: $80,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation: $80,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetImmigrant & Refugee Law Center: $75,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $72,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $60,200 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $58,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetACTION TANK: $55,500 over 4y, 35% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $54,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION: $45,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetMATRIOTS EDUCATION FUND: $37,350 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetNATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $28,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHispanics Avanzando Hispanics -- DBA Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati Foundation: $20,960 over 2y, 11% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw and Leadership Institute LLC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Local Government: $13,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH AT THE CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetURBAN APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY COALITION: $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES CHAMBER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $10,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO DEBATE COMMISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR NONPROFITS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $9,636 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISH FESTIVAL: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRISE UP NEWS: $7,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMILL CREEK ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 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 Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds School Board School ↗
  • Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
  • Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Carol Ann and Ralph V…United Way of Greater…Interact for HealthThe Thomas J Emery Me…Duke Energy FoundationOhio State Bar Founda…L & L Nippert Charita…Pfau Charitable Found…Horizon Community Fun…John a Schroth Family…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH66.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government 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 103 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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