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Seyfarth Shaw Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k115 grants · $244k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC | $17,500 |
| LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,558 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $7,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTHEASTERN CA & NORTHERN NV | $7,500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS | $6,809 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST | $6,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| KENNEDY CENTER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PERFORMANING ARTS | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY | $5,000 |
| THE LGBTQ CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
131 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PBPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF ATLANTA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +30%
- LALAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +5%
- MNMAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ACAMERICA'S CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
- HAHEARTLAND ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- JCJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.
OneJustice's mission is to strengthen the legal services sector's expertise and capacity to advance justice and equity.
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all
Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California and the most unlike its peers is Turpin Cares Nfp. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
144 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 220 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
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- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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- Who funds MASSEQUALITY EDUCATION FUNDORG INC ↗
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- Who funds Leadership Atlanta Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · Perkins Coie Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation · Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
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 Seyfarth Shaw Charitable 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bay State Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Provincetown Commons Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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