· Private foundation
Robert & Michele Seass 1999 Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity by the Cove | $7,501 |
| Nantucket Cottage Hospital | $5,000 |
| Nantucket Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Artis Naples | $2,500 |
| Archangel Fund of Collier Co | $1,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $750 |
| The Frick Collection | $630 |
| Naples Woman's Club | $350 |
| Naples Botanical Gardens | $295 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | $210 |
| Provident House | $100 |
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 (FY17–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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 +79% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 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
- TLThe League Club Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +80%
- NHNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC6× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +200%
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC6× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +79%
Funded once
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +15%- VVMFAone grant, 2021 · $835
- TLTHE LATCHKEY LEAGUEone grant, 2017 · $550 · revenue -86%
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.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To enlighten, engage, educate, and enrich the community and to build on naples art's history and position of leadership as a hub of visual arts in southwest florida. we believe art can change lives and improve entire communities. continued…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
To stimulate, foster and promote public interest in the arts and to further the education of the public in the fine arts, by welcoming the participation of all artists as well as a diverse group of art patrons.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 52 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 ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATCHKEY LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds ORAL CANCER FOUNDATION HILL ↗
- Who funds Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Robert & Michele Seass 1999 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven 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.