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Searles Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARK LAKE SPIRITS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS & SCULPTURE FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HYDE SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| LOON PRESERVATION COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| ABACO STRONG | $4,000 |
| BARN SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC | $2,000 |
| TOLEDO SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| LIBRARY LEGACY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| TOLEDO ZOO | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CLCLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue +197%
- LPLoon Preservation Committee9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +1%
- LWLake Winnipesaukee Association4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- SRST ROBERT OF NEWMINSTER PARISHone grant, 2024 · $8k
- CTCHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC PARISHone grant, 2024 · $8k
- FFFriends For Tomorrow Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -10%
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
To sustain and enhance lowell observatory's mission of research and education by generating perpetual financial support.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
The turtle conservancy is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo and the Toledo Newsboys Association and the most unlike its peers is Abaco Strong Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 0% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 36 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
- Who funds Lake Winnipesaukee Association ↗
- Who funds FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS & SCULPTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Abaco Strong Inc ↗
- Who funds Jackson Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hyde School ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Fernandina Beach Charitable Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends For Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Barnabas Foundation ↗
- Who funds TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN IN NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
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: George Isaac Foundation · The O-I Charities Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Searles 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Jacksonville Zoological Society 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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