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Paul B and Mildred Seydel Foundation at a glance

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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.

$203k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$571kEducation$338kHealth$83kYouth Development$69kReligion$60kHousing & Shelter$51kRecreation & Sports$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$57,500
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER$25,000
EBENEZER BUILDING FOUNDATION$25,000
CAPTAIN PLANET FOUNDATION$25,000
ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ST JOSPAHAT SCHOOL$6,000
THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL$5,000
GEORGIA RECYCLING COALITION$5,000
CONTAINER RECYCLING INSTITUTE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME FUND$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $2k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $2k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $4k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $2k → 13%CENTRAL OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY CENTE: $3k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MN
IL
NY
OR
WY
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 48 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
41

Total granted

$1.1M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+38%

Still filing today

58%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CR
    CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +35%
  • CP
    Captain Planet Foundation Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +27%
  • EM
    ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION USA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • GP
    GREEN PEACE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SE
    Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Bluegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +121%
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
American Gas Association

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…

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2
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
8
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
9
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Jewelers of America Inc

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.

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11
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
12
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $187,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIASOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $50,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERGREEN PEACE: $50,000 · OtherGREEN PEACECaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $45,000 · OtherCaptain Planet Foundation IncTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · OtherST JOSPAHAT SCHOOL: $27,000 · Other+63 more: $416,389 · Other+63 moreOXYGEN PROJECT INC: $262,500 · EnvironmentOXYGEN PROJECT INCCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INCGeorgia Recycling Coalition Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentCONTAINER RECYCLING INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Environment+7 more: $43,350 · Environment+7 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $28,500 · HealthASCENSA HEALTH INC: $12,500 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,210 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,600 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION USA INC: $40,000 · EducationJuan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropySynGAP Research Fund Incorporated: $1,500 · PhilanthropyEBENEZER BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · ReligionPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $2,000 · ReligionSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $25,000 · Science & Tech
Other$805,889Environment$440,850Health$62,310Education$51,000Philanthropy$41,000Religion$27,000Science & Tech$25,000

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 budgetOXYGEN PROJECT INC: $262,500 over 2y, 39% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $95,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION USA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEBENEZER BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGeorgia Recycling Coalition Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCONTAINER RECYCLING INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetASCENSA HEALTH INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Press Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAlaska Whale Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJuan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,210 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $3,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Outreach and Advocacy Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDWORK ATLANTA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Community Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Georgia Power Foundat…United Way of Greater…The Imlay Foundation …The Waterfall Foundat…Atlanta Community Foo…Tull Charitable Found…Tr Uw Charles I BrananSouthern Company Gas …Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTHDF II Inc DBA The H…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA37.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paul B and Mildred Seydel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul B and Mildred Seydel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    How do I get to Paul B and Mildred Seydel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paul B and Mildred Seydel 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 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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