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Seedworks Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $680k
- $250k+1 grant · $565k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $565,000 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $175,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $150,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW | $85,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $60,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| FAMILY TREE | $40,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND | $30,000 |
| CO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| CO COALITION FOR HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| READ 718 | $25,000 |
| SAFE FUTURES | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +72% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $926k · revenue +8%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +102%
EARTHJUSTICE6× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +82%
Funded once
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +8%- BBIHSone grant, 2021 · $85k
- TBTHE BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $60k
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith in Sobriety Development Corporation. 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 44 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) — 3% 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.
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 78 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 TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds StoryCenter ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds READ 718 INC ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARY D FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO MUJER INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND 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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Seedworks Fund 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.
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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