· Private foundation
Pk Seidman Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HAVEN | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BARTLETT HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
| ORPHEUM THEATRE | $10,000 |
| MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS & CONFERENCE CENTER | $9,000 |
| MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN | $7,200 |
| MEMPHIS ZOO | $7,000 |
| MERITAN | $5,000 |
| CAMP CONQUEST | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $5,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNION MISSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +134%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $48k · revenue ×12- CCCamp Conquest3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TLTRAIL LIFE USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +215%
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -5%
- BHBARTLETT HS BAND BOOSTERSone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Warriors Center Memphis is dedicated to assisting men overcome issues related to substance abuse and/or homelessness. We meet the needs of men such as clothing, shelter, education, job training and rehabilitation.
The organization's mission is to be "a ministry that responsibly enhances the lives of older adults with christ-like love."continued on schedule o.intentional and meaningful community life is central to achieving the organization's mission…
Westminster place, a faith based not for profit, creates vibrant communities for older adults that inspire wellness, independence, joy and security - enriching the lives of residents and their families.
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mifa Corporation. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 50 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TRAIL LIFE USA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Conquest ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds Fayette Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MERITAN INC ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Methodist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Knapp Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Crews Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · Lawrence Lewis Foundation · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · The Urban Child Institute
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 Pk Seidman Charitable Trust 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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