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· Private foundation
FRANKLIN I & IRENE LIST SAEMANN
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$210k
Granted FY2025
14
Grants
6
Communities
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of FRANKLIN I & IRENE LIST SAEMANN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
educationliteracyvisual artswartburg
2020
educationliteracy
2021
—
2022
—
2023
wartburg
2024
wartburg
2025
wartburg
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WARTBURG COLLEGE$80,000
- CARTHAGE COLLEGE$70,000
- WARTBURG THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$20,000
- KOSCIUSKO COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES$10,000
- CARDINAL SERVICES INC$5,000
- COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICE$5,000
- HEARTLINE PREGNANCY CENTER$5,000
- CROSSROADS LUTHERAN CHURCH$4,500
- URBAN SERVANT CORP$3,000
- LIST ACADEMY OF MUSIC$3,000
- MAGICAL MEADOWS INC$1,500
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE IND$1,000
- KOSCIUSKO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
- EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE$1,000
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 24 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
24
5
Total granted
$2.9M
$1.5M
Still filing today
38%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WCWARTBURG COLLEGE5× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +28%
- CCCOMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES2× · 2022–2023 · $59k · revenue +23%
- HPHEARTLINE PREGNANCY CENTER4× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- WCWARTBUG COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- QSQUILL SCHOOL OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WLWINONA LAKE LIMITLESS PARKone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Washtenaw Community College
To give hope and support to washtenaw community college students through scholarships and other philanthropic support.
Education
2
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
3
Cedar Crest College
Liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to educating the next generation of leaders.
Education
4
Maricopa County Community College
We boldly impact our communities through innovative and strategic partnerships for the growth and... we boldly impact our communities through innovative and strategic partnerships for the growth and benefit of the maricopa community…
Philanthropy
5
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater college is a private, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college of approximately 1,500 students
Education
6
Endicott College
Undergraduate and graduate education. (see schedule o)endicott integrates professional and liberal arts with experiential learning including internships.
Education
7
Elizabethtown College
Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.
Education
8
Centre College
Centre college is an educational community dedicated to study in the liberal arts as a means to develop the intellectual, personal, and moral potential of its students.
Education
9
North Central College
We are a diverse community of learners dedicated to preparing students to be curious, engaged, ethical, and purposeful citizens and leaders in local, national and global contexts.
Education
10
Central College
Central college is a private liberal arts institution dedicated to the four year undergraduate experience.
Education
11
Watermans Community Center
Provide arts & enrichment programs & experiences for North Haven community members of all ages
Philanthropy
12
Carleton College
To provide an exceptional undergraduate liberal arts education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Early Childhood Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carthage College. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$2,320,500Other$1,962,300Human Services$60,500Health$39,500Recreation & Sports$13,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEARTLINE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH WEBSTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO LITERACY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Kosciusko County CommunityIN20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Kosciusko County Community · The Dr Dane & Mary Louise Miller · United Way of Kosciusko County Inc · Hand Family Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation FRANKLIN I & IRENE LIST SAEMANN funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MAGICAL MEADOWS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +52% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 261154624 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MAGICAL MEADOWS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Franklin I & Irene List Saemann?
Find your warmest path to Franklin I & Irene List Saemann through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines