· Private foundation
Seager Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $250k+1 grant · $543k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD DEEDS FOR ALL DONOR ADVISED FUND | $542,987 |
| BY THE HAND CLUBS | $6,000 |
| MARMION ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ATHLETES IN ACTION | $5,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE | $5,000 |
| WHEATON ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CARING NETWORK | $3,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| CALVERT HALL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THE MOODY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RENEW PROJECT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $548k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWHEATON ACADEMY2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +36%
- CNCARING NETWORK NFP2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +182%
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +71%
Funded once
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +34%
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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Cornerstone Center Foundation · Matthew Six Ten Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seager Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seager Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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