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SEG FOUNDATION

SEG FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,378,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($431,242). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$7.4M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$26M
10/17 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Seg Foundation does

Mission

Seg Foundation advances geophysics today and inspires geoscientists for tomorrow through funding innovative activities and grant programs that benefit geophysicists, their professional community and the society of exploration geophysicists and the general public. To provide scholarships, professional development and youth outreach activities that advance geophysics, train geoscientists and interest youth in the study of the geosciences.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Seg Foundation funds scholarships, professional development and student and field grant programs through the society of exploration geophysicists that benefit geophysicists, their professional community, and the general public.

    $1,127,543 spentof which $1,126,883 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,127,543.

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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 117 ($2.4M) Expenses 94 ($2.8M) Net assets 89 ($20M)2019 Revenue 129 ($2.7M) Expenses 86 ($2.5M) Net assets 99 ($22M)2020 Revenue 120 ($2.5M) Expenses 58 ($1.7M) Net assets 114 ($26M)2021 Revenue 124 ($2.6M) Expenses 65 ($1.9M) Net assets 119 ($27M)2022 Revenue 23 ($482k) Expenses 73 ($2.2M) Net assets 85 ($19M)2023 Revenue 4 ($84k) Expenses 68 ($2.0M) Net assets 92 ($21M)2024 Revenue 355 ($7.4M) Expenses 66 ($2.0M) Net assets 114 ($26M)
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Revenue (355)Expenses (66)Net assets (114)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 2021 to 2022, from $27M to $20M (−28%).

$23M
$21M
$23M
$26M
$27M
$20M
$21M
$26M
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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

55% of SEG FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 497 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$877k
’17
−$330k
’18
$143k
’19
$810k
’20
$670k
’21
−$1.7M
’22
−$1.9M
’23
$5.5M
’24
27
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

Rocco Detomo

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1719181917181523
Joined·+4+4+4+10+3+4+11
No longer listed·25312273
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $52k → $309k.

9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 SEG FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

SEG FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% 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 SEG FOUNDATION.

31%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 68% · 2019 57% · 2020 58% · 2021 31% · 2022 40% · 2023 32% — 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

57% of SEG FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

55% of SEG FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $625k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 4 states.

DE
OK
LA
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $753k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

SEG FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Months of reserve27.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SEG FOUNDATION

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 Oklahoma

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 30%Fundraising 12%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Society of Exploration Geophysicists · exempt
  • Seg Advanced Modeling Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SEG FOUNDATION?
SEG FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,378,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($431,242). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SEG FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,378,352 in grants to SEG FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SEG FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $431,242 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEG FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing