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Seven C Foundation at a glance

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Seven C 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.

$7k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Public Benefit$515kHuman Services$22kHealth$22kArts & Culture$20kEducation$20kReligion$11kEnvironment$10kAnimals$7kOther$0
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMES JANA CATHCART FAMILY FUND$1,300
STRAWN CATHCART FAMILY FUND$1,300
CORLENE C RHOADES CHARITABLE FAM FD$1,300
DAVID M CATHCART FAMILY FUND$1,300
DANIEL H CATHCART FAMILY FUND$1,300
BUFFALO BILL CENTER$382
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%CASA DE AMPARO: $2k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $2k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
NC
SC
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$629k · 65 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 60 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
9

Total granted

$629k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+83%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382 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
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +90%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF COLORADO SPRINGS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CS
    COLORADO SPRINGS HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
2
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
11
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Colo Spgs Therapeutic Riding Center. 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

33 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. 33 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
29/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAMES JANA CATHCART FAMILY FUND: $99,300 · OtherJAMES JANA CATHCART FAMILY FUNDCORLENE C RHOADES CHARITABLE FAM FD: $99,300 · OtherCORLENE C RHOADES CHARITABLE FAM FDSTRAWN CATHCART FAMILY FUND: $99,300 · OtherSTRAWN CATHCART FAMILY FUNDDANIEL H CATHCART FAMILY FUND: $99,300 · OtherDANIEL H CATHCART FAMILY FUNDDAVID M CATHCART FAMILY FUND: $99,300 · OtherDAVID M CATHCART FAMILY FUND+44 more: $83,282 · Other+44 moreTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,000 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationNorth Chicago Community Partners: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCasa De Amparo: $4,000 · Human ServicesRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB: $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $500 · EnvironmentJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $400 · EnvironmentCOLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $2,500 · HealthHopeWay Foundation: $2,000 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $1,000 · HealthTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$579,782Education$17,500Human Services$12,000Arts & Culture$10,700Environment$9,900Health$7,500Philanthropy$6,000

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 budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Historic Genesee Theatre: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cradle Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $300 over 2y, 0.3% 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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLO SPGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Historic Genesee Theatre ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL 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.

The Gorter Family Fou…CMB FoundationScott Family Foundati…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The David and Elizabe…Legatus FoundationThe Patton Charitable…Red Bird Hollow Found…Butler Family Foundat…Woodward Family Chari…
The Gorter Family FoundationIL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gorter Family Foundation · CMB Foundation · Scott Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · Legatus Foundation · The Patton Charitable Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Woodward Family Charitable 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 Seven C Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seven C Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 76 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home