· Private foundation
Thomas W Seger and Cynthia J Seger Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of THOMAS W SEGER AND CYNTHIA J SEGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL GREEN | $19,748 |
| PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $18,964 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $14,000 |
| DUBOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $13,100 |
| MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DUBOIS COUNTY MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION | $4,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ST MEINRAD ARCHABBEY | $2,000 |
| LOST RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $1,500 |
| VUJC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ROJAC | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT | $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 (FY24–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- MHMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +2%
Indiana University Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +65%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- GEGJCS EDUCATIONAL TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $445k
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLEone grant, 2017 · $113k
- SJST JOSEPH'S CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $105k
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.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
Simple decent housing for people in need
To support the charitable, educational and other exempt purposes of the indiana united methodist children's home, inc.
To solicit, receive, invest, and hold endowment contributions and donations for northern indiana historical society, inc. and to make distributions to the society.
To promote conventions and tourism in Dubois County, Indiana
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
Housing Opportunities DBA CoAction works to resolve and prevent homelessness in our communities by providing emergency housing, permanent supportive housing, affordable rentals, rental assistance, housing counseling, street outreach…
Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
To serve the charitable purpose of operating the continuing care retirement community known as the indiana masonic home in franklin, indiana.
Pet friendly services of indiana saves animal lives and prevents suffering. we provide free and low-cost spay/neuter surgery certificates to animal shelters, rescue groups and limited-income families. our lifesaving services address the…
Since 1831, the indiana historical society has been indiana's storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history. a nonprofit membership organization, the ihs also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Trace Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #156 and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 64 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.
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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: Dubois County Community Foundation · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Herb Thyen Family Foundation · The Kimball International - Habig Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Ruxer Foundation Inc · Jjc Charitable Trust · Thomas L Habig Foundation Inc · C A Stenftenagel Family Foundation · Sanda Hills Equine Center Inc · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · United Cabinet Foundation Inc
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 Thomas W Seger and Cynthia J Seger Family 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.
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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