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W Seymour Lacy Tw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$158k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,702
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,561
Organizations funded a year
8 to 8
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations W Seymour Lacy Tw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$158k0%
FY20248$143k25%
FY20238$153k13%
FY20228$169k0%
FY20218$148k0%
FY20208$120k13%
FY20198$120kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$812kYouth Development$144kEducation$55k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mahaska County YMCA$451,98874%
Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc$92,21630%
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa$81,28870%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA$44,44620%
Oskaloosa Public Library Foundation$26,0335n/a
William Penn University$17,50070%
The Salvation Army$7,0007n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.

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.

Pella Rolscreen FoundationIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About W Seymour Lacy Tw

How much does W Seymour Lacy Tw give?
W Seymour Lacy Tw reported 8 grants totaling $157,976 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does W Seymour Lacy Tw fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (80%), Youth Development (14%), Education (5%).
Who are W Seymour Lacy Tw's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Mahaska County YMCA ($452k), Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($92k), Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa ($81k).
Does W Seymour Lacy Tw fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does W Seymour Lacy Tw accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as W Seymour Lacy Tw?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pella Rolscreen Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is W Seymour Lacy Tw based?
W Seymour Lacy Tw is based in IA.

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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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