Illinois · Private foundation
The Seeley 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.
- $741k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Seeley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $671k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $601k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $694k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $594k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $654k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $665k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Ballet Association | $605,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kansas City Symphony | $340,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Owen Cox Dance Group | $299,000 | 6 | 21% |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $210,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Charlotte Street Foundation | $141,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bach Aria Soloists Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Nature Collective | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Chelsea Fund Inc | $98,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Inc | $87,140 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Seeley Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Seeley Foundation
- How much does The Seeley Foundation give?
- The Seeley Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $740,706 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Seeley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Environment (20%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Seeley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kansas City Ballet Association ($605k), Kansas City Symphony ($340k), Owen Cox Dance Group ($299k).
- Does The Seeley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Seeley Foundation 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 Seeley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is The Seeley Foundation based?
- The Seeley Foundation is based in IL.
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