· Private foundation
Seeley W Mudd 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STORYTELLER | $16,000 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $6,250 |
| CHARCOT MARIE TOOTH ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $3,500 |
| EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,250 |
| PEDIATRIC AIDS COALITION AT UCLA | $3,250 |
| BOYS REPUBLIC | $3,250 |
| SUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN | $3,000 |
| CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING PROJECT | $3,000 |
| HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| HOLA - HEART OF LOS ANGELES | $2,000 |
| NEW VILLAGE GIRLS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| DIG DEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- ESEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +109%
- BRBoys Republic5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +22%
- ACART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CICALM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +42%
- TRThe Riviera Ridge Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +73%
- HTHOPE THE MISSION (HOPE OF THE VALLEY)one grant, 2022 · $3k
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 central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance for Animals. 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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LADY FREETHINKER ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3 ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL 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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Mildred E & Harvey S Mudd Foundation · The Lucky One Foundation · The Little One Foundation · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Www Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation
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 Seeley W Mudd 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.