· Private foundation
Paul B and Mildred Seydel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of PAUL B AND MILDRED SEYDEL 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $57,500 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER | $25,000 |
| CAPTAIN PLANET FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EBENEZER BUILDING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JOSPAHAT SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| GEORGIA RECYCLING COALITION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME FUND | $5,000 |
| CONTAINER RECYCLING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NE GEORGIA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| NAHS FOUNDATION | $2,339 |
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 (FY20–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
48 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- CRCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +35%
- CPCaptain Planet Foundation Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +27%
- EMELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION USA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +80%
Funded once
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +46%- GPGREEN PEACEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SESylvia Earle AllianceMission Bluegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +121%
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Oxygen Project Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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 97 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 OXYGEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Captain Planet Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER BUILDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Recycling Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONTAINER RECYCLING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ASCENSA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Juan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Alaska Whale Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIR COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Press Club Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
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 Paul B and Mildred Seydel 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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