· Private foundation
The Seidler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $274k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $300,000 |
| ZACK JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DES MOINES | $250,000 |
| GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL | $250,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $214,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WYOMING | $150,000 |
| HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $150,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $102,750 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $100,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $76,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC SQUARE | $60,000 |
| FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
177 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $656k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA7× · 2018–2024 · $626k · revenue +165%
- KCKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2024 · $477k · revenue +9%
- DMDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $440k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE - MARY SEIDLER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $200k
- JHJEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $17k
- ECEMERSON COLLEGE AVA KEVITTone grant, 2023 · $10k
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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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
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Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 42 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 315 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Public Square Inc ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Nerman Family Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation
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 Seidler 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.