· Private foundation
The Seaman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
- $250k+4 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA | $2,150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,080,000 |
| GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT | $600,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION | $75,000 |
| PACE ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| PROSOCIAL WORLD | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA HAWKS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Seaman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GIGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC5× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +442% · 40% of their budget
- TJTAMPA JCCFEDERATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +10%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE3× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2.0M
- TOTHE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -39%
- SSSAVING SIGHT AND SOUND INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -99% · 32% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA JCCFEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds PROSOCIAL WORLD ↗
- Who funds THE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAVING SIGHT AND SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVOLUTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge Golf Foundation ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GEORGIA HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HAWKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Camp for All Kids ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Robert Sheft and Hope Gittis Sheft Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Rooms to Go Foundation Inc · Fjc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Seaman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Tampa Jccfederation Inc — 3% of income from government
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.
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