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Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$746kYouth Development$648kEnvironment$587kHealth$560kFood & Nutrition$495kRecreation & Sports$327kHuman Services$176kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $600k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $335k
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOODS PROJECT$75,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH$60,000
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE$50,000
ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN$50,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL$50,000
CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER$40,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$30,000
DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS$25,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$25,000
SURPASSING GRACE$20,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$20,000
DALLAS IS GARDENING INC$20,000
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $10k → 10%PIVOT INC - A TURNING POINT FOR YOUTH: $5k → 16%THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $5k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $5k → 10%PIVOT INC - A TURNING POINT FOR YOUTH: $5k → 16%PIVOT INC - A TURNING POINT FOR YOUTH: $3k → 16%PIVOT INC - A TURNING POINT FOR YOUTH: $1k → 16%PIVOT INC - A TURNING POINT FOR YOUTH: $1k → 16%THE WOMENS HOME: $5k → 16%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $25k → 14%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $15k → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $10k → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 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

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NV
WY
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
NM
NC
HI
OK
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 90 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
5

Total granted

$5.6M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TW
    THE WOODS PROJECT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +56%
  • SP
    ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +50%
  • PM
    PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +891%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE ST MARKS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CH
    CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -98%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +16%
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
Bosque School

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.

Education
2
Austin Trinity School

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…

Education
3
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
4
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
5
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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6
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
St John's School

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…

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9
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
10
La Academia de Estrellas

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.

Education
11
The Royal School System

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.

Education
12
The Peak School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is To Be Like Me; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 101 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
58/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $300,000 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTERCHILDREN'S HEALTH: $290,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION: $190,000 · OtherDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATIONNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $150,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $210,000 · OtherTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENFRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK: $130,000 · Other+50 more: $1,455,500 · Other+50 moreST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $185,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL…BREAKTHROUGH: $170,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $130,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTI…DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $102,000 · EducationDALLAS EDUCATION…DALLAS IS GARDENING INC DBA Lake Highlands Community Garden: $80,000 · EducationDALLAS IS GARDEN…WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $30,000 · Education+7 more: $76,500 · Education+7 morePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM O…CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER: $212,500 · Arts & CultureCROW CANYON AR…Dallas Museum of Art: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum …DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRE…Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Dallas…DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS AR…John Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc: $55,000 · EnvironmentJohn Bunk…Nature Discovery Center: $51,000 · EnvironmentNature Di…Urban Harvest Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentUrban Har…ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $40,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VAL…THE ARTIST BOAT INC: $18,000 · EnvironmentTHE WOODS PROJECT: $320,000 · Recreation & SportsThe American Adventure Service Corp: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG LIFE: $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentKNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSURPASSING GRACE: $100,000 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO: $25,000 · Human ServicesTO BE LIKE ME: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $20,000 · Human ServicesPIVOT INC: $14,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,725,500Education$848,500Arts & Culture$717,500Environment$464,000Recreation & Sports$361,500Youth Development$302,500Human Services$274,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT: $320,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $300,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER: $212,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION: $190,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $185,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $170,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK: $130,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSURPASSING GRACE: $100,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetDALLAS IS GARDENING INC DBA Lake Highlands Community Garden: $80,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJohn Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetNature Discovery Center: $51,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetRecipe for Success Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION: $45,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe American Adventure Service Corp: $35,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER DALLAS: $30,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for Civility in Government: $30,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetThe Winston School: $28,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Conservation Alliance: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 8.6% 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 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 Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • 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 DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds John Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Nature Discovery Center ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds Urban Harvest Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds Recipe for Success Foundation ↗

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.

Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Eugene McDermott …The Rees-Jones Founda…The Moody FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Celanese FoundationThe Rosewood Foundati…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX36.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Stephen M Seay Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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