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.

Where is The Seeley Foundation based?

The Seeley Foundation is based in IL.

The Seeley Foundation

The Seeley Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Seeley Foundation

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$105k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEnvironment$848kHealth$387kCommunity Improvement$265kEducation$211kPhilanthropy$181kAnimals$137kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $40k
$10k–50k12 grants · $284k
$50k–250k5 grants · $417k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
NATURE COLLECTIVE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 30 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+25%

Still filing today

57%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsOther

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

KC
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +91%
KC
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
6× · 2020–2025 · $340k · revenue +21%
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OWEN COX DANCE GROUP
6× · 2020–2025 · $299k · revenue +45%

Funded once

CR
CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +69%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -28%
FO
FRIENDS OF FISH CREEK
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States

Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.

Arts & Culture

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture

Tohono Chul Park Inc

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.

Environment

Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

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…

Environment

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc

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,…

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; 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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

17/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,923,906Arts & Culture$1,558,100Education$211,000Health$205,000Philanthropy$165,340Environment$158,000Civil Rights$20,000

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.

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.

Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank TrusteeMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home