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The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation

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.

$63k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$773k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalReligionEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$63k20%
FY202320$55k40%
FY202218$49k39%
FY202121$63k38%
FY202019$60k32%
FY201916$56k81%
FY20189$41k44%
FY20178$20kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$96kEducation$41kCrime & Legal$28kHuman Services$28kEmployment$27kPublic Benefit$23kHousing & Shelter$21kReligion$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTower Theatre Foundation Inc: $29,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetStatement Arts Inc: $26,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCivics Learning Project: $22,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center: $21,101 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBoundless Freedom Project: $18,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTools & Tiaras Inc: $13,499 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCentral City Concern: $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $10,022 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlanchet House of Hospitality: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDunaway Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDowntown Women's Center: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Way Home for Dogs Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBk Rot Inc: $6,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBuilding Beats Incorporated: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetZen Hospice Project Dba Zen Caregiving Project: $5,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA Place Called Home: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSmart Reading: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorthy Beyond Purpose Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetStreet Dog Hero: $3,457 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMinds Matter of Portland Inc: $3,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRose Haven Cic: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCasa of Central Oregon: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Harmony Program Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefy Ventures Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fund for Teachers: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSparrow Clubs USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Oregon Veterans Ranch: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSaving Grace: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDeschutes Children's Foundation: $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Public Broadcasting: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Giving Plate: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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 Autzen FoundationOR27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · Willard L & Ruth P Eccles Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · St Charles Health System Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · DeLeone Charitable 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.

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About The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation

How much does The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation give?
The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $63,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (10%), Crime & Legal (7%).
Who are The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tower Theatre Foundation Inc ($29k), Statement Arts Inc ($26k), Civics Learning Project ($23k).
Does The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Autzen Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Anjulicia Foundation.
Where is The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation based?
The Janet and Earl Seekins Family Foundation is based in OR.

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 58 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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