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Seadream Family Foundation Inc

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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Animals$13MInternational$13MEnvironment$11MHealth$3.6MFood & Nutrition$3.2MPublic Benefit$3.2MYouth Development$2.6MEducation$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.3M
$200,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE$1,500,000
Individual grant recipient$600,000
MYAGRO FARMS$600,000
HEADCOUNT INC$500,000
WORKING DOGS FOR CONVERVATION FOUND$450,000
CODE FOR AMERICA$400,000
DREAMHARLEM RBI INC$400,000
Individual grant recipient$333,333
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$250,000
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$250,000
AMAZON CONVERVATION ASSOCIATION$235,069
CITTA$225,000
CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIF$200,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER$166,667
FLATBUSH CATS INC$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $5k → 9%PONY POWER THERAPIES: $170k → 7%OASIS: $100k → 12%LA CASA DE DON PEDRO: $500k → 16%PONY POWER THERAPIES: $50k → 7%OASIS: $100k → 12%PONY POWER THERAPIES: $8k → 7%OASIS: $67k → 12%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $10k → 7%OASIS: $40k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%OASIS: $10k → 12%PEOPLES COURAGE INTERNATIONAL: $400k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $150k → 14%HOPELAND: $150k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$46M · 48 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
65

Total granted

$46M
$9.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • GP
    GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $7.6M · revenue +34%
  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +59%
  • HR
    HARLEM RBI INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • GA
    GAVI ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -84%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDA
    one grant, 2021 · $525k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
4
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
5
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
12
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp and the most unlike its peers is The Sheth Sangreal Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,474

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.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 121 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
57/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $2,400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMYAGRO FARMS — $2,400,000 · OtherMYAGRO FARMSWORKING DOGS FOR CONVERVATION FOUND — $1,350,000 · OtherWORKING DOGS FOR CONVERVATION FOUNDUNDERCURRENT INC — $1,086,237 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,025,000 · OtherHEAD COUNT INC — $750,000 · OtherEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $860,000 · Other+63 more — $11,030,173 · Other+63 moreJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $6,440,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUT…Wildlife Conservation Society — $1,125,800 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation…MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $918,333 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INCHumane World for Animals Inc — $457,050 · AnimalsTHE BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC — $395,000 · Animals+16 more — $1,552,750 · Animals+16 moreGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC — $7,600,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL POVERTY …UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $1,025,000 · InternationalUNITED NAT…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…GAVI ALLIANCE — $1,000,000 · InternationalGAVI ALLIA…Citta Inc — $775,000 · InternationalCitta IncGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVI…WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $500,000 · InternationalWORLD RESO…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $333,333 · InternationalCAMFED USA…International Rescue Committee INC — $250,000 · International+2 more — $80,000 · InternationalHARLEM RBI INC — $2,550,000 · PhilanthropyHARLEM RBI…THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION — $2,150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLARA …PETCO LOVE — $500,000 · PhilanthropyPETCO LOVE+4 more — $251,000 · PhilanthropyEARTHJUSTICE — $1,500,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,000,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $898,336 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $390,850 · EnvironmentWild Earth Allies Inc — $257,000 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST — $250,000 · Environment+4 more — $197,500 · EnvironmentCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — $1,600,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE — $800,000 · Public Benefit
Other$20,901,410Animals$10,888,933Social Science$7,600,000International$5,463,333Philanthropy$5,451,000Environment$4,493,686Public Benefit$2,400,000

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 budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC — $7,600,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $6,440,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC — $2,550,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMYAGRO FARMS — $2,400,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION — $2,150,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — $1,600,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $1,125,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNDERCURRENT INC — $1,086,237 over 7y, 24% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,025,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGAVI ALLIANCE — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $918,333 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $898,336 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $860,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE — $800,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCitta Inc — $775,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $750,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $666,668 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLa Casa De Don Pedro Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY — $500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $457,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation — $400,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $400,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC — $395,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $390,850 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $350,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $350,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $333,333 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $317,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTuxedo Park School — $280,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRESOLVE INC — $274,750 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWild Earth Allies Inc — $257,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST — $250,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUpstream USA Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPONY POWER THERAPIES INC — $227,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC — $215,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $165,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHOPELAND — $150,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 Woodtiger FundSilicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ford FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundGive Lively Foundatio…Jewish Communal FundImpactassetsincThe Rockefeller Found…
The Woodtiger FundPA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Woodtiger Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Impactassetsinc · The Rockefeller 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 Seadream Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
  • People for Animals Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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