· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $417k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BRIDGER-TETON | $105,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOC | $100,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERISTY FDN | $100,000 |
| OWEN COX DANCE GROUP | $62,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| WELLSPRING HEALTH ACCESS | $45,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY VIRGINIA | $40,000 |
| WETA PUBLIC TELEVISION AND RADIO | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDN OF JACKSON HOLE | $30,100 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $25,606 |
| FRIENDS OF DRAGON RUN | $25,000 |
| CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BACH ARIA SOLOISTS | $18,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| WYOMING PUBLIC MEDIA | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KCKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +91%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY6× · 2020–2025 · $340k · revenue +21%
- OCOWEN COX DANCE GROUP6× · 2020–2025 · $299k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CRCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +69%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -28%- FOFRIENDS OF FISH CREEKone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
We are a community oasis where reverence for the cultural and natural ecology of the sonoran desert region inspires responsible stewardship so that future generations may thrive.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
See attached schedule othe conservancy has sole responsibility for managing all aspects of the rose kennedy greenway, including horticulture, programming, public art, maintenance, and capital improvements. we envision a vibrant, inclusive,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Chelsea Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OWEN COX DANCE GROUP ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of Dragon Run Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Astoria Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 23 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Seeley Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.