· Private foundation
The Seamen's Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM GULF OF MEX | $20,000 |
| STELLA MARIS ARCHDIOCESE OF MOBILE | $12,000 |
| DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB | $6,000 |
| BUCKAROO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES PORT | $3,750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- NMNATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM GULF OF MEXICO3× · 2018–2022 · $40k
- PCPROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue -10%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC MARITIME CLUB4× · 2020–2023 · $28k
Funded once
- NMNAT'L MARITIME MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $10k
- AOAPOSTLESHIP OF THE SEAone grant, 2018 · $5k
- MAMOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +45%
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.
To preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of biloxi and the mississippi gulf coast.
To promote scouting in the south alabama area
To elevate the legal profession to the highest possible standards, regulate its practice, and provide continuing legal education to its members.
To present a forum for business and citizens where an exchange of ideas can occur that will make Mobile a better place to live, work and do business.
Contributes to the culture and heritage of Mobile, Alabama and the surrounding areas by hosting Mardi Gras Parades, Balls,and Associated
Medical history educational entity
Educate, Empower and Encourage business growth and expansion.
Professional medical association. the organization is responsible for awarding scholarships to medical students and supporting the medical society of mobile county.
To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.
Mobile Arts Councils mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Mobile area through increasing accessibility to the arts and promoting a vibrant cultural community.
None
Operation of a nautical history museum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and the most unlike its peers is Buckaroo 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 20 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 PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds BUCKAROO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM OF THE GULF OF MEXICO ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · 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 Seamen's 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.
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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