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Sea Change Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2017
15
Grants FY2017
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES INC$3,600
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES INC$2,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$1,600
CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER$582
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE & HEALTH$575
MARINER SANDS CHAPEL INC$200
MARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC$200
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY INC$150
YMCA OF THE TREASURE COAST$100
UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY$100
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER$100
MARCH OF DIMES$75
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$25
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION$25
02The need
02

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $25 → 9%AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE & HEALTH: $575 → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2k → 14%MARINER SANDS CHAPEL INC: $200 → 10%MARCH OF DIMES: $75 → 11%UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $25 → 13%MOFFITT CANCER CENTER: $100 → 13%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $582 → 14%MARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC: $200 → 10%CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES INC: $2k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY: $100 → 10%LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $150 → 10%YMCA OF THE TREASURE COAST: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

2
Third Way Institute

Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.

Civil Rights
3
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

7
Constituting America Inc

Constituting america's mission is to educate students and adults about the constitution through the culture. constituting america's mission is to utilize the culture: film, internet, tv and social media to reach, educate and inform…

Education
8
National Civil Justice Institute

The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…

9
Just Capital Foundation Inc

Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…

Social Science
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE+1 more — $150 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES IN — $3,600 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES…AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH — $575 · OtherAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEAL…MARINER SANDS CHAPEL INC — $200 · Other+3 more — $225 · OtherCenter for Immigration Studies Inc — $2,000 · Civil RightsCenter for Immi…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,600 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH…MARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC — $200 · Public BenefitMARINER SANDS …CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $582 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC — $100 · PhilanthropyMARCH OF DIMES INC — $75 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25 · Health
Education$5,150Other$4,600Civil Rights$2,000Public Benefit$1,800Philanthropy$682Health$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Immigration Studies Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $582 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH — $575 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Martin County — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Sea Change Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • United Way of Martin County Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sea Change Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sea Change Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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