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The Seaver Foundation at a glance

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The Seaver 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.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$3.2MRecreation & Sports$694kEnvironment$215kArts & Culture$135kHealth$100kSocial Science$100kCivil Rights$55kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
$40,900
Median grant
4
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE$80,000
EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM$60,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$50,000
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME$40,900
RADICAL HOPE FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY$10,000
SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION$7,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SCONSET TRUST: $110k → 6%RADICAL HOPE FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE: $500k → 12%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $350k → 8%PRENTICE CUP FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST: $500k → 11%STAMFORD YOUTH TENNIS ACADEMY: $15k → 9%Amherst College: $50k → 12%First Serve Bridgeport: $10k → 12%INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME: $50k → 7%MED13L FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%US INTERNATIONAL CLUB CO SPORTSPLUS: $5k → 8%SCONSET TRUST: $100k → 6%RADICAL HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AMHERST COLLEGE: $430k → 12%Stanford University: $100k → 8%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $110k → 9%INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME: $41k → 7%SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%RADICAL HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AMHERST COLLEGE: $425k → 12%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $75k → 8%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $60k → 9%SCONSET TRUST: $5k → 6%RADICAL HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE PO BOX 5000: $425k → 12%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $50k → 9%SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $5k → 8%TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE PO BOX 5000: $425k → 12%New Canaan Library: $40k → 9%TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE: $80k → 12%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $35k → 9%EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM: $60k → 12%CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE FOR TENNIS EDUCATION: $22k → 9%EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM: $50k → 12%CT Alliance for Tennis & Education: $20k → 9%TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE PO BOX 5000: $25k → 12%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $15k → 9%EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM: $10k → 12%Prentice Cup Foundation: $10k → 9%EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM: $10k → 12%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $10k → 9%EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM: $5k → 12%CT Alliance for Tennis & Education: $6k → 9%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $5k → 9%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 8 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$3.3M
$731k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

75%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthSocial ScienceEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +89%
  • 'T
    'SCONSET TRUST INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $215k · revenue ×14
  • SH
    SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • WP
    WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -43%
  • TM
    THE MED13L FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -69%
  • AC
    Amherst College
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
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
3
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
4
The Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center Inc

To build leaders on the court, in the classroom, and in the community by providing academic, wellness, and social development programs alongside recreational and competitive tennis instruction for youth and adults. sportsmen's tennis and…

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5
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Usta National Tennis Center Incorporated

To promote and develop the game of tennis as a means to healthful recreation and physical fitness and to operate a year-round public recreational facility.

Recreation & Sports
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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9
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
10
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
11
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst College Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $2,445,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $525,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $325,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC+2 more: $10,000 · EducationWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $500,000 · OtherWEST PALM GOLF CO…RADICAL HOPE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherRADICAL HOPE FOUN…Amherst College: $50,000 · OtherAmherst CollegeCT Alliance for Tennis & Education: $25,500 · Other+6 more: $69,850 · Other+6 more'SCONSET TRUST INC: $215,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $90,900 · Recreation & SportsFIRST SERVE BRIDGEPORT INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MED13L FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $100,000 · Social SciencePRENTICE CUP FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · InternationalMEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC: $500 · Community Improvement
Education$3,305,000Other$700,350Environment$215,000Recreation & Sports$100,900Health$100,250Social Science$100,000International$7,500Community Improvement$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $2,445,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $525,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $325,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $215,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE MED13L FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $90,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST SERVE BRIDGEPORT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetPRENTICE CUP FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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