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Seidler Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$615k
Granted FY2020
102
Grants FY2020
20
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Religion$264kRecreation & Sports$211kHuman Services$207kEducation$144kHealth$59kArts & Culture$25kCivil Rights$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2020 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k87 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
$1,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$210,000
CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$50,000
LIFESOCAL$37,500
CARMELITE SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART$20,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$20,000
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME$20,000
ST MONICA ACADEMY$20,000
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$10,000
CAPUCHIN FRIARS SUPPORT FUND$10,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES$10,000
CARMEL OF ST THERESE$10,000
JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION$10,000
PRIESTS OF HOLY CROSS INDIANA PROVINCE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST GIANNA'S MATERNITY HOME: $300 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%MARYVALE: $500 → 14%HOLY FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 14%GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER: $300 → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$412k · 10 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 90 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
90

Total granted

$412k
$268k

Still filing today

0%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

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

  • L
    LIFESOCAL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $198k
  • CS
    CARMELITE SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART
    4× · 2017–2020 · $80k
  • CO
    CARMEL OF ST THERESE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k

Funded once

  • CE
    CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +81%
  • SM
    ST MONICA ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +32%

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

04Your field

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.

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St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

2
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
3
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
6
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
7
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

8
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
9
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
10
University of Mary

The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Senior Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 53 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr11%57%35–55yr13%37%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,924

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.

04the grantee network

44 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIFESOCAL — $197,500 · OtherLIFESOCALCARMELITE SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART — $80,000 · OtherCARMELITE SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEARTCARMEL OF ST THERESE — $40,000 · OtherCARMEL OF ST THERESECAPUCHIN FRIARS SUPPORT FUND — $35,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN FRIARS SUPPORT FUNDCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS UNITED STATES PROVINCE INC — $25,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · Other+67 more — $129,000 · Other+67 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $210,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $50,000 · EducationCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONST MONICA ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationST MONICA ACADEMY INCPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLAR…+5 more — $16,500 · EducationMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $3,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $2,000 · Health+3 more — $1,400 · HealthNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $4,000 · ReligionST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY — $2,000 · ReligionWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $2,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC ATHLETES FOR CHRIST — $1,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · ReligionTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER — $2,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $1,300 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 · Human ServicesMARYVALE — $500 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE — $500 · Human ServicesSaint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc — $300 · Human ServicesCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$526,500Education$316,500Health$56,400Arts & Culture$21,000Religion$9,500Human Services$5,600Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $210,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MONICA ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART RETREAT HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CATHOLIC DAILY — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYVALE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYCREST MANOR — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC ST MARY'S MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
  • Who funds ST MONICA ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
  • Who funds NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY
  • Who funds SACRED HEART RETREAT HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

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.

Carrie Estelle Doheny FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · California Community Foundation · The Moran Foundation · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · Klm Foundation · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation · Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas 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 Seidler Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Seidler Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Seidler 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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