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Robert Arthur Seale Foundation at a glance

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Robert Arthur Seale Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$111k
Granted FY2018
8
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Health$66kHousing & Shelter$60kEducation$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kPhilanthropy$29kAnimals$20kFood & Nutrition$15kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2018 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $103k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$20,000
CANNINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$20,000
SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$17,600
FEIST-WEILLER CANCER CENTER$15,000
MAKE-A-WISH$10,000
HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK$10,000
CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA$8,300
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPARROW'S VINE: $1k → 9%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.
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 4 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$87k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+43%

Still filing today

50%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +79%
  • FC
    FEIST-WEILLER CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k
  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k

Funded once

  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +89%
  • PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -76%
  • WF
    WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +92%
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
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
2
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
3
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
4
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc

In partnership with donors, sioux falls area community foundation (sfacf) provides philanthropic leadership that assures the quality of life in our area, for good, for ever.the community foundation cultivates philanthropy by inspiring new…

Philanthropy
5
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
6
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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7
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
8
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation

The mission of the stephen siller tunnel to towers foundation is to honor the sacrifice of fdny firefighter stephen siller, and all those who laid down their lives to save others on september 11, 2001. we also honor our military, and first…

Education
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
11
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
12
Wesleylife Foundation

Guided by christian compassion, we provide the needed resources to support the independence, health, and well-being of older adults wherever they call home.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sparrows Vine. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $40,300 · OtherCENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANASHRINERS HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALFEIST-WEILLER CANCER CENTER: $17,000 · OtherFEIST-WEILLER CANCER CENTERHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCHMAKE-A-WISH: $10,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISHSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION: $8,775 · OtherSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION+1 more: $2,000 · OtherHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS IN…SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,600 · PhilanthropySEELEY LAKE…PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $25,000 · HealthPROJECT HEA…SEELEY-SWAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,536 · HealthSEELEY-SWAN…WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentWILDLAND …CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSPARROWS VINE: $1,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$113,075Housing & Shelter$60,000Philanthropy$28,600Health$28,536Environment$25,000Human Services$21,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $40,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,600 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEELEY-SWAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,536 over 1y, 23% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Robert Arthur Seale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Arthur Seale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 15 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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