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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
States reached
$403k
Largest
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 FY20172021.

Philanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$427kHealth$48kYouth Development$34kEnvironment$22kArts & Culture$9kPublic Benefit$4kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$402,923
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN WILLOW FUND$402,923
DREEBIN FAMILY FUND$402,922
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 9%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$619k · 9 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +138% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
30

Total granted

$619k
$499k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+47%

Still filing today

33%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +54%
  • FU
    FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +138%
  • DF
    DETERMINED2HEAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +433%

Funded once

  • AH
    ACTION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $425k
  • BH
    BRAVE HEART FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURG
    one grant, 2018 · $27k
  • NH
    NOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
5
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
6
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
9
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

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

22 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. 22 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND — $565,500 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDACTION HOUSE INC — $425,000 · OtherACTION HOUSE INCGOLDEN WILLOW FUND — $402,923 · OtherGOLDEN WILLOW FUNDDREEBIN FAMILY FUND — $402,922 · OtherDREEBIN FAMILY FUND+23 more — $88,600 · OtherFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthDETERMINED2HEAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM — $3,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,000 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentHumane World for Animals Inc — $2,000 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 · InternationalTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,884,945Health$22,500Arts & Culture$8,000Environment$2,500Animals$2,000International$2,000Public Benefit$1,500

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 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 budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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

Open a dossier: 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 Seagears 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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

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