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Seek the Positive Foundation

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.

$231
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$231
Largest grant, FY2023
$231
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Seek the Positive Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
PhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$2310%
FY20223$11k67%
FY20216$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Youth Development$12kHealth$7kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$1kReligion$1kAnimals$102

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
IOLA Foundation$9,00010%
The Keep a Breast Foundation$7,45630%
Dream Machine Tour$5,00010%
Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club$3,00010%
Help Me Help You$1,03910%
The Church in Long Beach Corporation$1,0001n/a
Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10210%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($250), not named here.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Seek the Positive Foundation

How much does Seek the Positive Foundation give?
Seek the Positive Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $231 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Seek the Positive Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Youth Development (45%), Health (28%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Seek the Positive Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: IOLA Foundation ($9k), The Keep a Breast Foundation ($7k), Dream Machine Tour ($5k).
Does Seek the Positive Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seek the Positive Foundation 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 Seek the Positive Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Seek the Positive Foundation based?
Seek the Positive Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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