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The Seabury Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.

Philanthropy$24MEducation$139kArts & Culture$78kHuman Services$59kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$40kYouth Development$29kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,774,975
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SEABURY FOUNDATION FEIN61-19341$1,774,975
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 16%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $15k → 10%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $8k → 10%IGNITE (FORMERLY TEEN LIVING PROGRAMS): $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
3
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
4
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
5
The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…

Education
6
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
7
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
8
Erie Neighborhood House

Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…

Human Services
9
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Students Run Chicago
Health
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The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waves Project 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr14%44%35–55yr18%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr18%13%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
15%
6,023/39,503

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEABURY FOUNDATION FEIN 61-1934172 — $21,983,058 · OtherSEABURY FOUNDATION FEIN 61-1934172THE SEABURY FOUNDATION FEIN61-19341 — $1,774,975 · OtherTHE SEABURY FOUNDATION FEIN61-19341+27 more — $258,682 · OtherMARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES — $22,500 · Human ServicesIGNITE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHoward Area Community Center — $6,000 · Human ServicesSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe People's Music School — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePiven Theatre Workshop — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureConner Prairie Museum Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBEREA COLLEGE — $13,500 · EducationLADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) — $10,000 · EducationOAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationALVERNO COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EducationFAMILY MATTERS INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION — $7,500 · Community ImprovementSECOND HELPINGS INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 · Food & NutritionSt Leonard's Ministries — $10,000 · ReligionBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $10,000 · Religion
Other$24,016,715Human Services$63,500Arts & Culture$62,500Education$42,000Community Improvement$32,500Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAVES PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES — $22,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Music School — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiven Theatre Workshop — $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIGNITE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPegasus Theatre Chicago — $8,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHoward Area Community Center — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT VISION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLUSTER TUTORING PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT — $582 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Seabury FoundationThe Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …United Way of Metropo…Helen V Brach Foundat…Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationWP & HB White Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…
The Seabury FoundationIL43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Seabury Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick 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 The Seabury 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Seabury Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Seabury Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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