· Private foundation
The Dean Seeman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING | $25,000 |
| AUSTIN KIRBY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| REEL RECOVERY | $20,000 |
| DOUGLAS ANIMAL WELFARE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS | $10,000 |
| CANINE REHABILITATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| PROJECT PROM OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SUICIDE PREVENTION NETWORK | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $964k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $781k · revenue +75% · 26% of their budget
- RRREEL RECOVERY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +24%
- DADouglas Animal Welfare Group9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +266%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- DHDOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $12k
- NANEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329graduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +245%
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.
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.
Crime Stoppers of Nevada, Inc. was created to involve the public in the fight against crime. Crime Stoppers of Nevada, Inc. provides citizens with a vehicle to anonymously supply Law Enforcement with information about a crime or wanted…
Provide assistance and support to fire agencies, the community, burn victims, and families, related to catasrophic events. Provide assistance to at risk children identified by local fire agencies. Further education and awareness of fire…
Charitable
We support northern nevada veterans cemetery
Kids Chance of Nevada provides college and technical scholarships to the children of parents who have been killed or severely injured in a workplace accident in Nevada.
Reno Toy Run exists to gather and distribute toys at Christmas to Northern Nevada children, who might not otherwise receive any gifts for Christmas. Our membership gathers funds from the Community to cover expenses, and any extra funds are…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Kirby Foundation ↗
- Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Douglas Animal Welfare Group ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PROM OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 ↗
- Who funds Suicide Prevention Network ↗
- Who funds Carson Valley Kiwanis 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.
Open a dossier: Wray Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dean Seeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dean Seeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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