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Seeley Family 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.

$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$340kAnimals$17kInternational$16kEnvironment$14kReligion$12kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$9kEducation$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEPAD USA INC$4,000
LAGUNA DE SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION$3,090
OAKLAND ZOO$2,643
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$2,091
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$2,000
FINAL PASSAGES$2,000
WESCO$2,000
REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE$2,000
FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES$1,061
WE HOPE$1,060
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,045
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$1,041
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $300k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT: $5k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$105k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+27%

Still filing today

58%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CS
    CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +59%
  • LD
    Laguna De Santa Rosa Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +111%
  • RH
    REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IH
    Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -12%
  • AC
    ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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6
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter
7
Floreciendo

The mission of Oakland Bloom is to advance food and economic justice community power and resilience with working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs. Oakland Bloom does this through stewarding Open Test Kitchen as a kitchen and…

Employment
8
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
9
Project Open Hand

Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.

Food & Nutrition
10
San Francisco City Guides

Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.

Human Services
11
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
12
Homeownership San Francisco dba Home Sf

The Organization is a citywide collaborative of housing counseling agencies that helps diverse and underserved households achieve and sustain homeownership in San Francisco.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services; the most unlike its peers is Cepad Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $300,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES+4 more: $10,091 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY (JFCS EAST BAY): $31,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & COMM…CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $9,100 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH IS…Laguna De Santa Rosa Foundation: $8,090 · OtherLaguna De Santa Rosa…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY (JCC EAST BAY): $5,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CEN…Individual grant recipient: $3,200 · Other+20 more: $23,161 · Other+20 moreCEPAD USA INC: $14,740 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,045 · InternationalCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $15,643 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES: $1,061 · AnimalsREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $7,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUrban Adamah: $5,000 · EnvironmentDaily Acts Organization: $1,000 · EnvironmentWEHOPE: $3,060 · Youth Development
Human Services$310,091Other$79,551International$18,785Animals$16,704Philanthropy$8,000Environment$6,000Youth Development$3,060

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $15,643 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEPAD USA INC: $14,740 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLaguna De Santa Rosa Foundation: $8,090 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Adamah: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEHOPE: $3,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $2,091 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $2,041 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFinal Passages Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES: $1,061 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Acts Organization: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Architectural Heritage: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLava Mae: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…The Jewish Community …Marin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The San Francisco FoundationCA17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Seeley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seeley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Seeley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Seeley Family 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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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