· Private foundation
Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Stephen's Episcopal Church | $105,000 |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $27,000 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,000 |
| Edina Give and Go | $25,000 |
| Hope Academy | $25,000 |
| The Lift Garage | $25,000 |
| St John's University | $20,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $20,000 |
| Longville Area Community Foundation | $20,000 |
| Hennepin Arts | $15,000 |
| My Very Own Bed | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Sharing & Caring Hands | $14,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $10,000 |
| MN Independence College & Community | $10,000 |
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 (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 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 +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- EGEDINA GIVE AND GO7× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +130%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +240%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SSSusan Stuart Seiler Family Fdn Fundone grant, 2017 · $17k
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwestgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +31%
- CTChildren's Theatre Company and Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · 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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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,…
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.
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.
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…
Urban ventures leadership foundation envisions a city without poverty by educating kids, strengthening their families, and building healthy communities.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sheltering Arms Foundation and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 77 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 EDINA GIVE AND GO ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF MN ↗
- Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds EDINA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN ARTS ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Construction Career Training Program ↗
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: 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
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 Susan Stuart Seiler Family 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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