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Seaman Family Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360 | $150,000 |
| CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES COUNTY | $30,000 |
| WOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL CARDIOVASCULAR INST | $30,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $30,000 |
| CENTRAL AMERICA MEDICAL OUTREACH | $28,500 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $16,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $12,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| PARENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| OHIO LIGHT OPERA | $7,500 |
| MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% 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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k 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
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +24%
- TDTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $228k · revenue +317% · 28% of their budget
- CACAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $193k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- WCWOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $76k
- OHOHIO'S HOSPICE LIFECAREone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SWSERVING WOMEN IN GHANAone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -13%
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 mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Wayne hospital foundation develops resources to support wayne hospital in providing high quality health care to the community. the resources are developed toward caring for new life, education and supporting the caregivers, ensuring a…
Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 71 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 AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN MEDICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds SERVING WOMEN IN GHANA ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Animal Care Center Of St John Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLMES COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗
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: Wayne County Community Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Romich Foundation · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Willard E Smucker Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Charles Loehr Charitable Trust · The College of Wooster
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 Trust 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% 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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