· Private foundation
Ronald D and Carol J Sekura Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of RONALD D AND CAROL J SEKURA FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN REEF CULTURAL INC | $8,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $1,137 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $1,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| OCEAN REEF FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| THE CLEO INSTITUTE | $500 |
| MOTE MARINE FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FARM SHARE INC | $500 |
| THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FLORIDA KEYS WILD BIRD REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Cornell University3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +15%- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +39%
- KCKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- BFBRUTE FORCE ROBOTICSone grant, 2023 · $2k
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +16%
- JHJUDI'S HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +23%
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.
Our research has demonstrated that corals can adapt to the effects of environmental stressors if immediate threats are reduced and if we protect healthy, ecologically connected networks of reefs.
Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.
To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.
Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem
Our mission at reef renewal foundation international is to increase coral coverage and biodiversity worldwide by supporting our global network of reef restoration programs. reef renewal's network members are programs that are locally led…
To scale coral reef restoration through a holistic model of art, science and community. we design marine regeneration hubs that consist of sculptural coral gardens and land-based coral farms. we aim to target local impacts on reefs while…
To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.
Provide scientific, environmental research and education for environmental conservation, preservation, restoration, recycling, and environmental planning
The mission of Ocean First Institute is ocean conservation through research and education. We work to deepen the natural connection between people and the ocean. We educate and empower people to understand the ocean is our life support…
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Fakahatchee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEO INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BRUTE FORCE ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Fakahatchee ↗
- Who funds Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ronald D and Carol J Sekura Family Foundation 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.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.