California · Private foundation
Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $713k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $1.6M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $1.2M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $1.3M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | $527,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Santa Catalina Island Conservancy | $525,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Long Beach Opera | $510,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Yale University | $462,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $390,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Heartbeat Opera Ltd | $318,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Scripps College | $267,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $210,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $161,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Seaver Endowment · The Seaver Institute · Adams Fund · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Seaver Institute · Marin Community Foundation · The Confidence Foundation
How this is measured
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About Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust
- How much does Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust give?
- Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust reported 59 grants totaling $1,590,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (27%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Yale University ($527k), Santa Catalina Island Conservancy ($525k), Long Beach Opera ($510k).
- Does Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Seaver Endowment.
- Where is Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust based?
- Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust is based in CA.
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