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Seagears Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$806k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$402,923
Largest grant, FY2021
$402,923
Organizations funded a year
1 to 35
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Seagears Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $806k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$806k100%
FY20201$439k0%
FY20192$525k50%
FY201811$80k27%
FY201735$74kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$427kHealth$48kYouth Development$34kEnvironment$22kArts & Culture$9kPublic Benefit$4kAnimals$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seagears Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRavinia Festival Association: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFocused Ultrasound Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlbany Med Health System: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurke Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTalbot Hospice Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Adirondack Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Legion: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSome Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Seagears Family Foundation

How much does Seagears Family Foundation give?
Seagears Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $805,845 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Seagears Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Housing & Shelter (22%), Health (2%).
Who are Seagears Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Ravinia Festival Association ($8k), Adirondack Experience Inc ($8k), Focused Ultrasound Foundation ($6k).
Does Seagears Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seagears Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Seagears Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Seagears Family Foundation based?
Seagears Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 41 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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