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The Seaman Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Seaman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$17MEducation$13MPhilanthropy$10MCrime & Legal$1.3MCivil Rights$718kRecreation & Sports$675kScience & Tech$250kSocial Science$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
  • $250k+4 grants · $7.8M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $250k → 8%UNIVERISTY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4.2M → 22%SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $100k → 17%PROSOCIAL WORLD: $50k → 10%SAVING SIGHT AND SOUND INC: $100k → 13%ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $100k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $50k → 14%NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 14%UNIVERISTY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2.1M → 22%THE BRIDGE GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 14%NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2.0M → 22%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%ADL SOUTHEAST: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2.0M → 22%ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $100k → 17%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%ADL SOUTHEAST: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.0M → 22%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.0M → 22%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $100k → 17%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%ADL SOUTHEAST: $200k → 13%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $50k → 17%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%ADL SOUTHEAST: $100k → 13%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 13%TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION: $75k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $2.3M → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $2.1M → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $1.7M → 13%PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 13%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $200k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $995k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $990k → 13%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $990k → 13%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA: $980k → 13%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $2.0M → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC: $2.0M → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $1.0M → 14%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $600k → 13%GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $300k → 13%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

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NY
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of The Seaman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Seaman Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 15 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$24M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+26%

Still filing today

87%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropySocial ScienceCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GI
    GEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +442% · 40% of their budget
  • TJ
    TAMPA JCCFEDERATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +10%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    3× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • SS
    SAVING SIGHT AND SOUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -99% · 32% of their budget
  • OD
    ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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.

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
9
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
12
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Atlanta Hawks Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $7,000,000 · HealthPiedmont Healthcare Foundation IncNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · HealthNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOU…CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $3,050,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC+4 more: $250,000 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $10,125,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREAT…+3 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $6,320,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF…Individual grant recipient: $500,000 · Other+15 more: $685,356 · Other+15 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,082,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 · Education+4 more: $262,000 · EducationGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,250,000 · Crime & LegalTAMPA JCCFEDERATION INC: $600,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSOCIAL WORLD: $125,000 · Social ScienceEVOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 · Social Science
Health$15,300,000Philanthropy$10,175,000Other$9,505,356Education$6,594,500Crime & Legal$1,250,000Recreation & Sports$600,000Social Science$215,000

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $10,125,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $7,000,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,082,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $3,050,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetTAMPA JCCFEDERATION INC: $600,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROSOCIAL WORLD: $125,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSAVING SIGHT AND SOUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetEVOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GEORGIA HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp for All Kids: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Robert Sheft and …Jewish Federation of …Rooms to Go Foundatio…FjcAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Vanguard Charitable E…The Chicago Community…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY16.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Seaman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seaman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Tampa Jccfederation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Seaman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Seaman Foundation Inc 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 39 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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