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The Seilheimer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2024still arriving
103
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$18kEducation$14kReligion$13kYouth Development$11kEnvironment$9kHealth$5kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
15
States reached
$478k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ORANGE$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ORANGE$2,000
EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,000
GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL$2,000
GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL$1,500
UVA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
MONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION$1,000
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE$1,000
ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE$1,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$1,000
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
PRESERVATION VIRGINIA$1,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $100 → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $100 → 6%LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $200 → 10%LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $200 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY CHILDREN'S TOY BOX: $100 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY CHILDREN'S TOY BOX: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76k · 75 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
11

Total granted

$76k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+10%

Still filing today

68%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +85%
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +8%
  • MS
    MONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF GORDONSVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • CO
    Center of Glass & Light Ltd
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • GC
    GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $450
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.

1
Mount Vernon Preservation Society
Arts & Culture
2
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
3
Maymont Foundation

The maymont foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.

Arts & Culture
4
The Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc

The mission of the museum of the shenandoah valley (msv) is to preserve and enrich the cultural life and heritage of the shenandoah valley. serving the region as a cultural site, the msv fulfills its mission by presenting exhibitions;…

Arts & Culture
5
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
6
Washington Heritage Museums

The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…

Arts & Culture
7
Valley Conservation Council

To protect the natural and cultural resources of the greater shenandoah valley region through land conservation, education, and experiences to preserve the life-enriching benefits our land and water provide.

Environment
8
New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment
9
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
10
Virginia Living Museum Inc

The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…

Arts & Culture
11
Society of Architectural Historians

The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…

Arts & Culture
12
Gore Place Society

The mission of gore place is to preserve and promote the 1806 country estate of christopher and rebecca gore as a unique community resource that tells the story of early 19th century american life.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Club of Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ORANGE: $10,852 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ORANGEST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $6,120 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHEMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3,525 · OtherEMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCHMONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · OtherMONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INCGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (VMFA: $2,000 · Other+53 more: $18,630 · Other+53 moreGRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC: $3,800 · EducationGRYMES MEMORIAL …SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $2,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INST…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,000 · EducationPresident and Fe…ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $1,500 · EducationST ANNE'S-BELFIE…GROTON SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $1,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL SPO…NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $1,000 · EducationNICHOLS SCHOOL O…ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC: $2,800 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER …ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $1,500 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION …FOUR COUNTY PLAYERS: $1,100 · Arts & CultureFOUR COUNTY …Middleton Place Foundation: $750 · Arts & CultureMiddleton Pl…THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $600 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFE…THE MITFORD MUSEUM: $400 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $400 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $1,088 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMON…SCENIC VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC VIRG…LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentLEWIS GINTE…THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN …BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $500 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL G…Orange Downtown Alliance LOVEOrange of Virginia: $400 · EnvironmentBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $400 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $400 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $300 · Environment+7 more: $1,200 · Environment+7 moreFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthOrange Free Clinic Inc: $1,500 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $200 · HealthVirginia Capitol Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyLove Outreach Food Pantry Inc: $400 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $200 · Human ServicesORANGE COUNTY CHILDRENS TOY BOX: $200 · Human Services
Other$45,627Education$12,300Arts & Culture$9,038Environment$8,700Health$4,200Philanthropy$2,000Human Services$800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC: $3,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC: $2,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Capitol Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrange Free Clinic Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,200 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOUR COUNTY PLAYERS: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCENIC VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTUESDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA POINT TO POINT FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrange Downtown Alliance LOVEOrange of Virginia: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MITFORD MUSEUM: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLove Outreach Food Pantry Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN GARDEN HISTORY SOCIETY: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHOPIN FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Palladian Studies in America: $200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVirginia Thoroughbred Project: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA CONSORT: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKFISH VALLEY FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Charlottesville Area …Dun FoundationThe Luminescence Foun…Fauquier Health Found…The Community Foundat…Msa Family FundAmory S Carhart Memor…William M Backer Foun…Awa Family FoundationWise FoundationThe Joseph and Robert…Caplin Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA32× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Dun Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Msa Family Fund · Amory S Carhart Memorial Fund · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Awa Family Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation · Caplin 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Seilheimer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seilheimer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Seilheimer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Seilheimer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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