· Private foundation
Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc
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 $10k41 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $600k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WOODS PROJECT | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $60,000 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $50,000 |
| ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $50,000 |
| CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $25,000 |
| DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $25,000 |
| SURPASSING GRACE | $20,000 |
| DALLAS IS GARDENING INC | $20,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| BIG BEND CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
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, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TWTHE WOODS PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +58%
- SPST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +50%
- PMPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE ST MARKSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CHCITYLAB HS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -98%
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.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To teach our students to be life-long learners, who will actively participate in their own learning, remain engaged in the educational process and show mastery of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is To Be Like Me and the most unlike its peers is Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association. 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 51 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 101 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
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.
- Who funds THE WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURPASSING GRACE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS IS GARDENING INC DBA Lake Highlands Community Garden ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds John Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Nature Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds Recipe for Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds Urban Harvest Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Celanese Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation
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 Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% 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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