· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POMONA COLLEGE | $62,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL ARCADIA FESTIVAL OF BANDS | $20,000 |
| USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ROWING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL | $4,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +57%
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +80%
- PLPacific Legal Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- EBEPISCOPAL BISHOP OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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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How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA MUSIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Triangle Club of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEVIL PUPS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Seaver Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seaver Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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