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The Seilheimer 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ORANGE | $2,500 |
| EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ORANGE | $2,000 |
| GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| FOUR COUNTY PLAYERS | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (VMFA | $1,000 |
| MONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE | $1,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| UVA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (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. 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 +14% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +85%
- ACARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +8%
- MSMONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF GORDONSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $1k
- COCenter of Glass & Light Ltdone grant, 2023 · $500
- GCGARDEN CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $450
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.
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.
The maymont foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.
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;…
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…
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.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
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.
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…
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)…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Club of Virginia Inc and 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 104 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 GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER STEEPLECHASE & EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Virginia Capitol Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Orange Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR COUNTY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds SCENIC VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POINT TO POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center of Glass & Light Ltd ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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 Seilheimer 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
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.
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