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The Seymour Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MHealth$1.2MInternational$450kEducation$370kRecreation & Sports$50kReligion$50kEnvironment$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $820k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation$1,000,000
Friends of the High Line$205,000
Planned Parenthood of Greater NY$160,000
Peoples Portfolio Inc$150,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$150,000
Dalton Schools Inc$105,000
FJC$50,000
Day One Early Learning Center$20,000
Mad Foundation Inc$5,150
Southern Documentary Fund$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,563
Theatre Masters$500
Vallecitos Mountain Refuge$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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.

area typical 11%The Imetics Institute Inc: $15k → 11%HARK - ALS Inc: $50k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 7 repeat orgs$848k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$3.8M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+36%

Still filing today

86%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $410k · revenue +26%
  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LI
    LUMINARY IMPACT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · 71% of their budget
  • SH
    SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +187%
  • LP
    LSV PHILANTHROPIC MISSIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

2
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
3
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Public Knowledge

Public knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. we work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest.

Public Benefit
6
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
7
Healthix Inc

The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…

Public Benefit
8
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
9
Public Library of Science

Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.

Science & Tech
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

12
J Street

To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peer Health Exchange Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $1,325,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INCTHE PEOPLE'S PORTFOLIO INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PEOPLE'S PORTFOLIO INC+2 more — $5,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,125,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES U…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $410,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…LUMINARY IMPACT FUND — $125,000 · HealthLUMINARY IMP…DALTON SCHOOLS INC — $205,000 · EducationDALTON SCHO…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $150,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOO…SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $100,000 · EducationSHINING HOP…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…+2 more — $5,650 · EducationHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $350,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGH…LSV PHILANTHROPIC MISSIONS INC — $100,000 · InternationalLSV PHILAN…PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $400,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEAL…FJC — $50,000 · OtherDay One Early Learning Center — $30,000 · OtherMassachusetts General Hospital — $25,000 · OtherHARK-ALS INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE IMETICS INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND — $50,000 · OtherBLUEDOT INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 · Other+1 more — $1,563 · Other
Arts & Culture$1,480,500Civil Rights$1,125,000Health$535,000Education$495,650International$450,000Youth Development$400,000Other$241,563

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $1,325,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $410,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $400,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $205,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S PORTFOLIO INC — $150,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINARY IMPACT FUND — $125,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLSV PHILANTHROPIC MISSIONS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARK-ALS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMETICS INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE MAD FOUNDATION INC — $5,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATRE MASTERS HANSEN — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVALLECITOS MOUNTAIN REFUGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Seymour Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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