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Seven Seas Community 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.

$124k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Education$233kYouth Development$135kArts & Culture$48kHousing & Shelter$35kInternational$35kEnvironment$31kFood & Nutrition$21kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,608
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN$30,000
DROSTE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC$10,000
SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM$5,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$5,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY$5,000
ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL$5,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
XAVIER MISSION INC$5,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC$5,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$5,000
OUR LADY OF THE ISLE PARISH$3,000
A Jones$2,608
D Lacouture$2,608
M Pirtle$2,608
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO: $10k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YO: $5k → 17%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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$400k · 9 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$400k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    Trinity University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $48k · revenue +12%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • EI
    ELEVADO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0% · 50% of their budget
  • NF
    NORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +76%

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
10
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City and the most unlike its peers is Elevado Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN — $88,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MANHATTANST IGNATIUS SCHOOL — $52,500 · OtherST IGNATIUS SCHOOLELEVADO INC — $25,000 · OtherELEVADO INCCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $15,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYDROSTE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $15,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORKHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 · Other+17 more — $38,477 · Other+17 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY — $120,000 · Civil RightsGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NE…Trinity University — $47,820 · EducationTrinity Univ…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $15,000 · EducationThe New York…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $32,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …NORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH FOR…XAVIER MISSION INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $6,000 · Food & NutritionOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,000 · Environment
Other$268,977Civil Rights$120,000Education$62,820Arts & Culture$47,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Food & Nutrition$16,000Environment$16,000

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 budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY — $120,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTrinity University — $47,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $32,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetELEVADO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetXAVIER MISSION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDROSTE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Leon Levy FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leon Levy Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Seven Seas Community 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 · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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.

    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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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