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William E Seale Family Foundation

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.

$406k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$406,183
Largest grant, FY2025
$406,183
Organizations funded a year
6 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations William E Seale Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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 arriving1$406k0%
FY20246$4.5M17%
FY202327$4.1M15%
FY202223$3.8M22%
FY202127$4.8M48%
FY202025$2.7M80%
FY20196$3.3M17%
FY20186$1.6M33%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$11MPhilanthropy$3.2MArts & Culture$2.7MHealth$2.6MEnvironment$1.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$625kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Inc$2,450,000622%
Washington Jesuit Academy$1,900,0003n/a
St Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc$1,896,300614%
Anne Arundel Community College Foundation Inc$1,500,000615%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,350,00050%
San Miguel School Inc$750,0003n/a
New Story Inc$550,00042%
Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc$425,00035%
The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation of America$400,00047%
Coalfield Development Corporation$325,00041%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William E Seale Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnnapolis Symphony Orchestra Inc: $2,450,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetSt Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc: $1,896,300 over 6y, 14% of budgetAnne Arundel Community College Foundation Inc: $1,500,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNew Story Inc: $550,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOcean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc: $425,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetThe Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation of America: $400,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCoalfield Development Corporation: $325,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYellow Ribbon Fund Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBorder Angels: $200,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $160,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFlorida Keys Educational Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Resource Institute: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMib Agents Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harmony Program Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of South Georgia Island: $60,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetKilauea Point Natural History Association: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Street Connect Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Light House Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMolokai Land Trust: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCovenant House: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLuminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Academy at Ocean Reef Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Severn River Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Casco Bay: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA14.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Gift Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 William E Seale Family Foundation

How much does William E Seale Family Foundation give?
William E Seale Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $406,183 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does William E Seale Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Philanthropy (12%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are William E Seale Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Inc ($2.5M), Washington Jesuit Academy ($1.9M), St Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc ($1.9M).
Does William E Seale Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William E Seale Family Foundation 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 William E Seale Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co, William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc.
Where is William E Seale Family Foundation based?
William E Seale Family Foundation is based in MD.

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 50 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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