How much does The Seaver Institute give?

The Seaver Institute reported 50 grants totaling $3,729,296 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

What does The Seaver Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Environment (23%), Philanthropy (8%).

Who are The Seaver Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Scripps College ($1.2M), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden ($531k), Harvard-Westlake School ($504k).

Does The Seaver Institute 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 Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Seaver Institute, California Community Foundation, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.

Where is The Seaver Institute based?

The Seaver Institute is based in CA.

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The Seaver Institute

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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2025: 47
Organizations funded FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $875,000
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $40M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$3.5MEnvironment$1.4MPhilanthropy$486kArts & Culture$346kAnimals$154kHuman Services$64kCrime & Legal$50kYouth Development$45kOther$0

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, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Scripps College	$1,165,000	2	1%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden	$530,500	2	3%
Harvard-Westlake School	$504,000	2	0%
University of Washington Foundation	$345,000	2	0%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy	$250,000	1	1%
Pomona College	$220,000	2	0%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation	$211,000	2	1%
Sustainable Conservation	$210,000	2	0%
Johns Hopkins University	$200,000	1	0%
The Caltech Y	$158,771	1	14%

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All grantees of The Seaver Institute by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Scripps College	$1,165,000	2	1%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden	$530,500	2	3%
Harvard-Westlake School	$504,000	2	0%
University of Washington Foundation	$345,000	2	0%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy	$250,000	1	1%
Pomona College	$220,000	2	0%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation	$211,000	2	1%
Sustainable Conservation	$210,000	2	0%
Johns Hopkins University	$200,000	1	0%
The Caltech Y	$158,771	1	14%
Zoological Society of San Diego	$120,000	1	0%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation	$40,000	1	n/a
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State	$32,000	2	n/a
Coastal Watershed Council	$31,000	1	4%
Salastina	$30,000	1	5%
Westside Food Bank	$30,000	1	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
The Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology	$30,000	1	2%
Baby2baby	$30,000	1	n/a
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles	$20,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Los Angeles Parks Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Digital Nest Inc	$10,000	1	0%
School for Field Studies Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Loyola Marymount University	$10,000	1	0%
University of Colorado Foundation	$6,000	2	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$5,000	1	0%
California Art Club	$5,000	1	1%
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital	$5,000	1	0%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc	$4,500	1	0%
Berea College	$3,000	1	0%
Trustees of Boston College	$3,000	1	0%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Friends of the Urban Forest	$2,575	2	0%
Broadway Sacramento	$2,575	2	0%
United for A Fair Economy Inc	$2,575	2	0%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund	$2,575	2	0%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation	$2,500	1	0%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association	$2,500	1	0%
New Village Charter School Inc	$2,000	2	0%
ONeill Sea Odyssey	$2,000	2	0%
Beyond Barriers Athletic Foundation	$2,000	2	1%
Ptsd Foundation of America	$1,575	1	0%
La Canada Presbyterian Church	$1,575	1	n/a
Community Bridges	$1,575	1	0%
Pacific Asian Counseling Services	$1,500	1	0%
Active San Gabriel Valley	$1,000	1	0%
Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County	$1,000	1	0%
Pug Nation Rescue of Los Angeles	$1,000	1	0%
1979 Legacy Corp	$1,000	1	0%
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History	$1,000	1	0%
Venice Japanese Community Center Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Seaver Institute supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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 Seaver InstituteCA39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Seaver Institute · California Community Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · The Annenberg Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Richard C Seaver 1978 Trust · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · Helen and Will Webster Foundation · The Nicholson Family 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.

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About The Seaver Institute

How much does The Seaver Institute give?: The Seaver Institute reported 50 grants totaling $3,729,296 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Seaver Institute fund?: By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Environment (23%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are The Seaver Institute's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Scripps College ($1.2M), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden ($531k), Harvard-Westlake School ($504k).
Does The Seaver Institute 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 Institute?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Seaver Institute, California Community Foundation, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.
Where is The Seaver Institute based?: The Seaver Institute is based in CA.