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The Seale 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.

$20k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Human Services$2.1MHealth$1.1MReligion$763kRecreation & Sports$311kYouth Development$82kPublic Benefit$75k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$77
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC$20,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 10%HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 10%HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 10%HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 10%HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 10%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.

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 6 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$4.1M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+111%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Public BenefitYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $900k · revenue +156%
  • HF
    Honor Flight Austin
    2× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +48%
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • PF
    PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +47%
  • CO
    Champions Off the Fieldgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $82k · revenue +540%
  • WF
    WISH FOR OUR HEROES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +39%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
2
Austin Wade Foundation

Children battling cancer

Unclassified
3
Texas Wounded Warriors

The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…

Public Benefit
4
Texas Marines Medal of Honor Fund

The texas marines medal of honor fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on the remembrance of the sixteen texas marines and one navy corpsman who received the medal of honor; the maintenance of the texas marine medal of honor…

Arts & Culture
5
Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation
Health
6
Wishes for Warriors Corp
7
Billy Hurley Iii Foundation Inc

The primary goal of the charity is to support, honor and benefit a vital group of unsung heroes: military families.

Philanthropy
8
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
9
Texas Chrome Heros Foundation Inc

Provide Opportunities for PTSD Veterans

Health
10
Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation

To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.

11
Celebrities Fore Kids Inc

The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…

Human Services
12
Corporal Christopher Kelly Willis Foundation

Cckwf was formed to honor the memory of a beloved marine. we provide college scholarships to children of u.s. armed forces who have died or become disabled in a combat zone.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Rally for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Champions Off the Field. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 · OtherTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INCDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $900,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONDRIPPING SPRINGS FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $763,000 · OtherDRIPPING SPRINGS FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHDRIPPING SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING TEAM BOOSTER — $310,575 · OtherDRIPPING SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING TEAM BOOSTERPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $150,000 · Public BenefitHonor Flight Austin — $75,000 · Public BenefitWISH FOR OUR HEROES INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitChampions Off the Field — $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentHILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesJOHN WAYNE CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health
Other$3,973,575Public Benefit$250,000Youth Development$82,000Human Services$60,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $900,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChampions Off the Field — $82,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHonor Flight Austin — $75,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetHILL COUNTRY RALLY FOR KIDS INC — $60,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetWISH FOR OUR HEROES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJOHN WAYNE CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Seale 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Seale Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Seale 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 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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