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Seele 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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$281kHealth$186kEducation$97kRecreation & Sports$75kCommunity Improvement$64kPhilanthropy$34kEnvironment$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
FRIENDS OF PIONEER MEMORIAL LIBRARY$20,000
PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY$10,000
WILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
LOGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
WESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION$3,000
OAKLEY KANSAS FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,500
WINONA RURAL FIRE DEPT$2,500
BUTTERFIELD TRAIL MUSEUM$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $22k → 10%COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $20k → 10%FRIENDS OF PIONEER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $20k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $15k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $13k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $13k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $12k → 10%WESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX: $15k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $12k → 10%WESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX: $10k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY: $10k → 10%WILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY: $10k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%CITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%WESTERN PLAINS ART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%WESTERN PLAINS ART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%TUMBLEWEED ATHLETICS BC: $5k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%WESTERN PLAINS ART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%LOGAN COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WESTERN PLAINS ART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%WESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION: $4k → 10%WESTERN PLAINS ART ASSOCIATION: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$724k · 21 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$724k
$15k

Still filing today

29%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GL
    GROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +26%
  • WP
    WESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +54%
  • WW
    WILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SH
    SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TV
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $166,500 · OtherCOLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGECITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $129,100 · OtherCITIZENS HEALTH FOUNDATIONPRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY: $108,000 · OtherPRAIRIE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORYBUTTERFIELD TRAIL MUSEUM: $27,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PIONEER MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $20,000 · Other+17 more: $98,700 · Other+17 moreTHE LOGAN CO HEALTHCARE FND INC: $57,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LOGAN CO…THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 · PhilanthropyTHOMAS COUNT…WESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION: $38,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN PLAI…WILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureWILD WEST HI…SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP: $18,000 · Arts & CultureSMOKY HILLS …GROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $38,500 · Community ImprovementGROW LOGA…WESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN V…
Other$549,300Philanthropy$90,500Arts & Culture$89,000Community Improvement$63,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LOGAN CO HEALTHCARE FND INC: $57,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetGROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetWESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION: $38,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetWESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE LOGAN CO HEALTHCARE FND INC ↗
  • Who funds GROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX INC ↗
  • Who funds SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP ↗

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.

Greater Northwest Kan…Dane G Hansen Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Northwest Kansas Community FoundationKS19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Dane G Hansen Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seele Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seele Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Seele Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Seele Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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