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The Seabury 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.

$993k
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$945kYouth Development$393kHealth$242kHuman Services$189kFood & Nutrition$175kHousing & Shelter$161kRecreation & Sports$144kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $890k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROW BENZIE$32,000
OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$29,500
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S MEDIA CENTER (ICMC)$25,000
FAMILY MATTERS$25,000
BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER$25,000
FACETS MULTI-MEDIA$25,000
PROJECT EDUCATION PLUS$25,000
MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS$25,000
READING IN MOTION$25,000
GARDENEERS CO JOHN MARSHALL METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS$25,000
WEST TOWN BIKES$25,000
BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES$25,000
INGENUITY$25,000
TARGET HOPE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $10k → 12%MARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT: $3k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION INC: $10k → 14%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $25k → 10%TRINITY UCC CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $8k → 14%THE BLOC: $25k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $10k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $10k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $10k → 14%THE BLOC: $8k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $5k → 14%THE BLOC: $250 → 14%CHICAGO HELP INITIATIVE: $10k → 14%THE CHICAGO HELP INITIATIVE: $10k → 14%HOWARD AND EVANSTON COMMUNITY CENTER (FORMERLY HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%HOWARD AND EVANSTON COMMUNITY CENTER (FORMERLY HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
CO
KY
DE
AZ
NM
KS
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 86 repeat orgs$779k to everyone else

86 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
77

Total granted

$3.3M
$663k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+29%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +68%
  • TH
    Target Hope
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +81%
  • FM
    FAMILY MATTERS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • OP
    OAK PARKRIVER FOREST HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $32k
  • OP
    OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST HIGH
    one grant, 2022 · $32k
  • WP
    WAVES PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Teatro Vista Theater With a View Inc

Teatro Vista Productions is a non-profit theatre-based company dedicated to multidisciplinary artists of color whose artistic expression on stage and beyond is rooted in the transformative power of owning and telling our own stories.

Arts & Culture
5
Definition Theatre Company

Definition Theatre celebrates stories created with, inspired by, and intended for the people and communities of color. Through the act of making, Definition expands perspectives, stewards resources, and bridges the immense possibility…

Arts & Culture
6
Theatre Y

Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.

Arts & Culture
7
Danceworks Chicago Inc Nfp

To build a foundation for the individual artistic growth of dancers and choreographers, providing a laboratory from which early career artists propel themselves and the art form to a new level through training, collaboration, mentorship,…

Arts & Culture
8
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…

Arts & Culture
9
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble is a professional Equity company dedicated to elevating the lives of women through the power of theatre.

Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
11
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre

To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Goldin Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 174 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/126
Grantees still filing
84/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENZIE SHORES DISTRICT LIBRARY: $150,000 · OtherBENZIE SHORES DISTRICT LIBRARYMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $100,000 · OtherMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONSTHE GOLDIN INSTITUTE: $105,000 · OtherTHE GOLDIN INSTITUTE+91 more: $1,493,479 · Other+91 moreREADING IN MOTION: $65,000 · Arts & CultureREADING IN MOTIONThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of In…Mudlark Theater Company NFP: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMudlark Theater Company NFPPiven Theatre Workshop: $57,500 · Arts & CulturePiven Theatre WorkshopBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORP…INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $55,000 · Arts & CultureINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHIC…Facets Film Forum: $51,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Institute: $40,250 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO: $35,250 · Arts & CultureSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $333,500 · Arts & Culture+22 moreTarget Hope: $75,000 · EducationTarget HopeBEREA COLLEGE: $54,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGEWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $47,500 · EducationWORKING IN THE…PROJECT EDUCATION PLUS: $45,000 · EducationPROJECT EDUCAT…Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $45,000 · EducationChicago Height…READING QUEST: $42,500 · EducationREADING QUESTLITERACY WORKS: $40,000 · EducationLITERACY WORKSSIT STAY READ INC: $32,500 · EducationSIT STAY READ …ALVERNO COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationGARDENEERS: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 · Education+8 more: $73,300 · Education+8 moreCool Classics Inc: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS MEDIA CENTER: $53,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIVING WORKS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMBARC INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE TIES INC NFP: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $7,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $155,375 · ReligionSt Leonard's Ministries: $25,000 · Religion+1 more: $2,500 · ReligionAustin Childcare Providers Network: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLOC: $33,250 · Human ServicesBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO HELP INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Human ServicesHoward Area Community Center: $15,839 · Human ServicesMARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $10,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Corporation: $10,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY UCC CHILD CARE CENTER: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY MATTERS INC: $70,000 · Community ImprovementGROW BENZIE INC: $68,875 · Community ImprovementNehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION: $15,250 · Community Improvement
Other$1,848,479Arts & Culture$982,500Education$534,800Youth Development$222,000Religion$182,875Human Services$179,089Community Improvement$174,125

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $155,375 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE GOLDIN INSTITUTE: $105,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTarget Hope: $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGROW BENZIE INC: $68,875 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetREADING IN MOTION: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMudlark Theater Company NFP: $60,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPiven Theatre Workshop: $57,500 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $54,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS MEDIA CENTER: $53,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetFacets Film Forum: $51,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER: $50,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $47,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER: $47,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT EDUCATION PLUS: $45,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetREADING QUEST: $42,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $41,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Musical Arts Institute: $40,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLITERACY WORKS: $40,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE: $40,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $35,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAustin Childcare Providers Network: $35,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BLOC: $33,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSIT STAY READ INC: $32,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetHealing to Action: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMUNTU DANCE THEATRE: $30,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRYSTAL COMMUNITY SKI CLUB: $28,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCOGNITION: $27,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetRed Line Service Institute: $26,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEST TOWN BIKES NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabinet of Curiosity Inc NFP: $25,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetONE ON ONE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Field Foundation of I…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Seabury FoundationThe Albert Pick Jr Fu…John D and Catherine …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…Reva and David Logan …The Joyce FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL67.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Field Foundation of Illinois · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Seabury Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Seabury Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seabury Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Portland Community College Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
40report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 174 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home