· Private foundation
Seaman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| CENTAL FUND OF ISRAEL SHURAT HADIN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC | $10,000 |
| FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLIDER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $2,500 |
| ZAKA | $1,800 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $1,800 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +91% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MEMIDDLE EAST RESEARCH CENTER LTDone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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,…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 47 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.
- 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seaman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seaman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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