· Private foundation
The George and Elizabeth Seifert Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| ROCHESTER CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| OTHER SMALL UNDER 10000 EACH | $2,675 |
| LOVE HAS NO COLOR | $2,000 |
| MCKINNEY MAVERICKS BOOSTER CLUB | $1,000 |
| ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ROCHESTER-AVON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $225 |
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 (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The George and Elizabeth Seifert Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRochester Christian University7× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +30%
- WUWHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC2× · 2020–2021 · $550 · revenue +103%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC4× · 2019–2023 · $474 · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SMST MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Advocate for michigan's historic resources to contribute to the economic vitality, sense of place and connection to the past.
A non-partisan political organization that works to elect and hold accountable public officials who will champion a healthy and vital michigan by preserving and protecting our air, land and water.
Freedom, equality, and justicethe bill of rights declared that we have rights and liberties that the government shouldn't interfere with. rights like the freedom of speech and our right to a speedy trial that are the cornerstone of our…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
The primary mission of the presidents council is to advocate higher education as a public good and to promote its collective value in serving the public interest and the state of michigan. the primary goal is to provide services to members…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote historical study and preserve the lighthouse museum
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 63 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 Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds LOVE HAS NO COLOR ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN JAYCEES DOING BUSINESS AS JCI MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds WHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER-AVON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George and Elizabeth Seifert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Elizabeth Seifert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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