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Seaman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHEB ZEDEK CEDAR SINAI SYNAGOGUE | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUND | $35,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $25,000 |
| ASU | $25,000 |
| CENTAL FUND OF ISRAEL SHURAT HADIN | $10,000 |
| ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLIDER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM | $5,000 |
| FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $2,500 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC | $1,800 |
| ZAKA | $1,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $180) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2024 · $163k · revenue +91%
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC4× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +91%
- ZOZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IDInternet Development Fundone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -79%
- MMMERCL Middle East Research Center Ltdone grant, 2017 · $40k
- CACHABAD AT ASU INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…
Israel policy forum's mission is to build support for u.s. policies that help to advance a resolution to the israeli-palestinian conflict based on two states that would advance american interests and ensure israel's future as a secure,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Meir Panim and the most unlike its peers is Internet Development Fund. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds American Friends of Kedumim Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds Internet Development Fund ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Seaman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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