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SEALKIDS

SEALKIDS (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,786,209 to it, the largest being SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,281,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$7.8M
Net assets
$-237554
16/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Sealkids does

Mission

Sealkids inc. Provides academic testing, support, and enrichment to children of active naval special warfare personnel, and retired, reserve, seperated seals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sealkids testing and evaluation program provides support for psychoeducational testing to identify the root cause of a child's academic challenge(s).

    $14,375 spent
    2% of program spending
  2. Specialized needs - Sealkids specialized needs programs provide support to children that have been diagnosed with one or more learning disabilities. Sealkids offers education and training sessions to help children master skill goals and increase academic programs.

    $230,004 spent
    32% of program spending
  3. Academic support - Sealkids academic support programs provide support to children that have been diagnosed with one or more learning disabilities. Sealkids offers education and training sessions to help children master skill goals and increase academic performance.

    $467,196 spent
    65% of program spending
  4. Other

    $7,188 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $718,763.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($475k)2018 Revenue 95 ($1.5M) Expenses 104 ($1.3M) Net assets 74 ($351k)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 138 ($1.7M) Net assets 71 ($337k)2020 Revenue 78 ($1.3M) Expenses 134 ($1.7M) Net assets -15 ($-69082)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.7M) Expenses 128 ($1.6M) Net assets 3 ($14k)2022 Revenue 114 ($1.9M) Expenses 136 ($1.7M) Net assets 37 ($175k)2023 Revenue 73 ($1.2M) Expenses 143 ($1.8M) Net assets -87 ($-414699)2024 Revenue 73 ($1.2M) Expenses 81 ($1.0M) Net assets -50 ($-237554)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (81)Net assets (-50)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $763k to $219k (−71%).

$524k
$480k
$436k
$239k
$263k
$763k
$219k
$324k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of SEALKIDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$382k
’17
$250k
’18
−$89k
’19
−$406k
’20
$83k
’21
$161k
’22
−$593k
’23
$177k
’24
2.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Joseph Popp

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed108111211141213
Joined·+0+4+4+1+4+2+5
No longer listed·2132144
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $813k.

10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SEALKIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SEALKIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SEALKIDS.

42%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 59% · 2019 43% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

31% of SEALKIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

SEALKIDS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 16 states in all.

IL
NY
NV
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SEALKIDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SEALKIDS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 13%Fundraising 16%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEALKIDS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SEALKIDS?
SEALKIDS (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,786,209 to it, the largest being SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,281,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SEALKIDS have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $7,786,209 in grants to SEALKIDS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SEALKIDS?
SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,281,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEALKIDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing