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.

William E Seale Family Foundation

William E Seale Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$406k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% 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

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$406,183

Median grant

States reached

$5k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DAFgiving360 Schwab Charitable DAF Seale Family Fund	$406,183

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of William E Seale Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 22%.

William E Seale Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$25M · 33 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$25M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+19%

Still filing today

61%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther

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

AS
ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +293%
SM
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +85%
AA
ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +132%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
OC
OCEAN CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +0%
FK
FLORIDA KEYS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +57%

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.

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy

The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner

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Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's College of Maryland Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mib Agents Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

28/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$16,904,451Education$3,396,300Arts & Culture$2,690,000International$1,950,000Human Services$1,020,000Housing & Shelter$490,000Philanthropy$360,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William E Seale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William E Seale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home