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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.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$92kHealth$46kYouth Development$24kArts & Culture$24kCommunity Improvement$20kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOYS REPUBLIC$3,250
PEDIATRIC AIDS COALITION AT UCLA$3,250
CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING PROJECT$3,000
SUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL$3,000
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$3,000
HOLA - HEART OF LOS ANGELES$2,000
HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION$2,000
NEW VILLAGE GIRLS ACADEMY$1,000
VALLEY FOOD BANK$1,000
THACHER SCHOOL$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS REPUBLIC: $4k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $4k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $3k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $2k → 14%COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $3k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $3k → 14%VALLEY FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%VALLEY FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%VALLEY FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 27 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

$213k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+73%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BR
    Boys Republic
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +22%
  • ES
    EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +109%
  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +42%
  • TR
    The Riviera Ridge Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +73%
  • C
    CALM4KIDSORG
    one grant, 2021 · $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

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
University of Southern California

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…

Education
2
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
Alternative Schools Inc

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.

Education
5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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6
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
7
California Institute of Integral Studies

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…

Education
8
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
9
Los Angeles Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

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…

International
11
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

—
12
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 50 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STORYTELLER: $16,000 · OtherSTORYTELLERHARVEY MUDD COLLEGE - EMM SCHOLARSHIP: $16,000 · OtherHARVEY MUDD COLLEGE - EMM SCHOLARSHIPCONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING PROJECT: $15,600 · OtherCONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING PROJECTPEDIATRIC AIDS COALITION AT UCLA: $15,500 · OtherPEDIATRIC AIDS COALITION AT UCLASUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL: $15,100 · OtherSUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOLCALM INC: $6,500 · Other+28 more: $62,800 · Other+28 moreART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $15,600 · EducationART CENTER COLLE…Harvey Mudd College: $12,100 · EducationHarvey Mudd Coll…The Riviera Ridge School: $6,000 · EducationThe Riviera Ridg…The Thacher School Inc: $3,600 · EducationThe Thacher Scho…NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationBoys Republic: $17,500 · Human ServicesBoys Republi…RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSI…HOPE THE MISSION: $4,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MIS…COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOURAGE CALI…UNITY SHOPPE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE…GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $23,000 · HealthGWENDOLYN …VENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $700 · HealthEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $17,500 · Community ImprovementTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $10,000 · EnvironmentInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,500 · International
Other$147,500Education$39,300Human Services$30,500Health$24,700Community Improvement$17,500Environment$10,000International$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBoys Republic: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $15,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $12,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALM INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $2,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLADY FREETHINKER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OJAI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT STREET VET: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDITATION GROUPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys Republic ↗
  • Who funds EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • 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 NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3 ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LADY FREETHINKER ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Mildred E & Harvey S …The Lucky One Foundat…The Little One Founda…Yellow-Crowned Founda…Mosher FoundationWww FoundationManitou FundThe Ralph M Parsons F…Liberty Hill Foundati…Santa Barbara Foundat…
California Community FoundationCA25.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 50 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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