California · Private foundation
The Seaver Endowment
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.
- $332k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $62,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Seaver Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $332k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $371k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $319k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $219k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $262k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $277k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $189k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $420k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Justice | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Reason Foundation | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pomona College | $126,716 | 7 | 0% |
| The J Paul Getty Trust | $124,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $114,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Princeton University Rowing Association | $87,250 | 6 | 41% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Seaver Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Weingart Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About The Seaver Endowment
- How much does The Seaver Endowment give?
- The Seaver Endowment reported 22 grants totaling $331,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Seaver Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (22%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are The Seaver Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Institute for Justice ($165k), The Reason Foundation ($155k), Pacific Legal Foundation ($150k).
- Does The Seaver Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Seaver Endowment accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Seaver Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust, The Rose Hills Foundation.
- Where is The Seaver Endowment based?
- The Seaver Endowment is based in CA.
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