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Ronald D and Carol J Sekura Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$33kEducation$23kArts & Culture$19kPhilanthropy$9kEnvironment$6kFood & Nutrition$3kYouth Development$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCEAN REEF CULTURAL INC$8,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$1,137
OCEAN REEF FOUNDATION$1,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$1,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION$500
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$500
FARM SHARE INC$500
OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$500
THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$500
CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION$500
MOTE MARINE FOUNDATION INC$500
THE CLEO INSTITUTE$500
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION$250
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%The Key's Children's Foundation: $500 → 13%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%The Keys Children's Foundation: $327 → 13%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 15 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$85k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • Cornell University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +15%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • KC
    KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • BF
    BRUTE FORCE ROBOTICS
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +16%
  • JH
    JUDI'S HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +23%
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
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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2
The Coral Reef Alliance

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.

Environment
3
Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment
4
Captains for Clean Water Inc

To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.

Environment
5
Reef Relief Inc

Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem

Environment
6
Clean Reefs
Environment
7
Reef Renewal Foundation International

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…

Environment
8
Global Coralition Inc

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…

Environment
9
Sea Research Foundation Inc

To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.

Animals
10
Coastal Conservation & Research

Provide scientific, environmental research and education for environmental conservation, preservation, restoration, recycling, and environmental planning

Environment
11
Ocean First Institute

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…

Education
12
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $28,117 · OtherOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCOCEAN REEF CULTURAL INC: $18,779 · OtherOCEAN REEF CULTURAL INCPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,638 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY+6 more: $6,200 · Other+6 moreCornell University: $10,633 · EducationCornell Unive…BRUTE FORCE ROBOTICS: $1,515 · EducationBRUTE FORCE R…OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,987 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF …JUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUS…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,637 · EnvironmentTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC: $1,573 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentFriends of Fakahatchee: $850 · EnvironmentALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,471 · HealthFARM SHARE INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,147 · Food & NutritionKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,327 · Human Services
Other$63,734Education$12,148Philanthropy$9,987Environment$5,560Health$3,471Food & Nutrition$2,647Human Services$2,327

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $28,117 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $10,633 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,987 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,471 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,327 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,637 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC: $1,573 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRUTE FORCE ROBOTICS: $1,515 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SHARE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,147 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fakahatchee: $850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Holmes Family Fou…Ocean Reef Community …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Holmes Family Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ronald D and Carol J Sekura Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald D and Carol J Sekura Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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