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Seymour and Katherine Garay 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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 21
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$541k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$44k19%
FY202415$42k27%
FY202319$55k5%
FY202221$27k24%
FY202121$41k0%
FY202021$39k24%
FY201917$37kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$101kHuman Services$93kEducation$36kFood & Nutrition$15kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$6kReligion$6kAnimals$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeton Hall University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Helping Hands Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGateway Community Outreach Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen & Family Life Center Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Guilford Free Library: $3,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAARP Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Services: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Children Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Classroom Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Broward County Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Community Healthcare Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guilford Art Center Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Gulf Gate Library Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation

How much does Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation give?
Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $44,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Human Services (33%), Education (13%).
Who are Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Seton Hall University ($30k), Boca Helping Hands Inc ($6k), Gateway Community Outreach Inc ($6k).
Does Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation based?
Seymour and Katherine Garay Foundation is based in MA.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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