How much does Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation give?

Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $441,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (18%), Food & Nutrition (8%).

Who are Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Stephens Episcopal Church ($481k), Edina Give and Go ($155k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($150k).

Does Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.

Where is Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation based?

Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation is based in NE.

Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation

Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$441k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$105k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$871kReligion$487kFood & Nutrition$226kEmployment$211kHuman Services$179kHealth$177kArts & Culture$174kHousing & Shelter$91kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $70k
$10k–50k14 grants · $266k
$50k–250k1 grant · $105k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
St Stephen's Episcopal Church	$105,000
Second Harvest Heartland	$27,000
The Lift Garage	$25,000
University of Nebraska Foundation	$25,000
Edina Give and Go	$25,000
Hope Academy	$25,000
Longville Area Community Foundation	$20,000
St John's University	$20,000
World Central Kitchen	$20,000
Hennepin Arts	$15,000
My Very Own Bed	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
Sharing & Caring Hands	$14,000
MN Independence College & Community	$10,000
Ronald McDonald House	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 39 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+17%

Still filing today

64%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

EG
EDINA GIVE AND GO
7× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +130%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +31%
HA
HOPE ACADEMY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +240%

Funded once

SS
Susan Stuart Seiler Family Fdn Fund
one grant, 2017 · $17k
RM
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwestgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +31%
CT
Children's Theater Company
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy

Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation

Urban ventures leadership foundation envisions a city without poverty by educating kids, strengthening their families, and building healthy communities.

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Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement

Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy

Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education

University Nursery Schools Inc

The mission of the university nursery school is to prepare the children in our community for a successful and fulfilling future throughout their education and beyond. we strive daily to provide loving care, as well as high quality and…

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The Minnesota Daily

1. provide independent student journalism and comprehensive coverage of news, media and events that serve the public interest and inform the university of minnesota community.2. offer a forum for the free exchange of ideas and civil debate…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sheltering Arms Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental 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

51 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. 51 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/51

Grantees still filing

28/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,496,600Education$495,000Human Services$184,500Health$167,000Food & Nutrition$149,000Employment$145,000Arts & Culture$109,000

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

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.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN28.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Pentair Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Communitygiving · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz 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 Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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