· Private foundation
Sethness Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF MSK | $15,000 |
| BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FND OF THE TEXAS HILL COU | $10,000 |
| DIGS WITH DIGNITY | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HARRIS THEATER OF MUSIC DANCE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED | $10,000 |
| NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE | $6,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $5,500 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNE | $5,000 |
| SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET | $5,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBig Shoulders Fund5× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +67%
- DWDIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +121%
- NHNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +88%
Funded once
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +5%- CFCOMMUNITY FUND OF NEW JERSEYone grant, 2023 · $6k
INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 92 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Barrette Family Fund · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Natalie W & Leo E Wolf Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Burkehaven Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sethness Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sethness Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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