Ohio · Private foundation
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.
- $479k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Seaman Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $449k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $353k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $237k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $304k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $347k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $317k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akron Children's Hospital Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Downtown Arts Theater Inc | $228,400 | 5 | 28% |
| Camping and Education Foundation | $193,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wooster Community Hospital | $76,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $62,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Central American Medical Outreach Inc | $54,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Noble Network of Charter Schools | $46,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wayne Center for the Arts | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The College of Wooster | $34,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($660k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Seaman Family Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Seaman Family Foundation Trust
- How much does Seaman Family Foundation Trust give?
- Seaman Family Foundation Trust reported 36 grants totaling $478,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Seaman Family Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Philanthropy (23%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Seaman Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Akron Children's Hospital Foundation ($300k), The Downtown Arts Theater Inc ($228k), Camping and Education Foundation ($193k).
- Does Seaman Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seaman Family Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seaman Family Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wayne County Community Foundation, Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc, Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation.
- Where is Seaman Family Foundation Trust based?
- Seaman Family Foundation Trust is based in OH.
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