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The Seymour Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Vallecitos Mountain Refuge$500
Theatre Masters$500
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peer Health Exchange Inc; 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 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. 20 of the 24 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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, 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.

    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 24 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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