· Private foundation
Franklin I & Irene List Saemann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| KOSCIUSKO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CARTHAGE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +3%- CCCOMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES5× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +23%
- HPHEARTLINE PREGNANCY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- WLWINONA LAKE LIMITLESS PARKone grant, 2022 · $5k
- QSQUILL SCHOOL OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AWANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF KOSCIUSKOone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide quality childcare and early childhood education to children of working members of the local community.
The mission of the wccc is to serve as a model early childhood education program for young children, while also serving as an early childhood resource for parents of the college and community.
Child day care center
Wayland area child care organization's mission is to provide child care services to the citizens of wayland, iowa and surrounding communities.
Provide Childcare
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
Our mission is to provide quality early childhood education and caring, nurturing child care in a way that values and respects each child's individuality, and facilitates growth in all aspects of the child's development. to carry out this…
It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.
Watch Them Grow Children's Center's mission is to provide the highest quality care at an affordable rate for the families in our community. We strive to offer as many educational opportunities as possible for the early childhood and school…
Wwcns's mission is to provide the highest quality educational childcare services to families with children from ages two through four.
Community care and learning center strives to provide accessible, qualaity child care that supports parents' ability to maintain stable employment while knowing their children are in a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment.
Licensed child care provider to infants, toddlers and preschoolers in amherst, ma and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Early Childhood Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Magical Meadows Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 INC ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH WEBSTER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION READ INC ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAGON WHEEL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN PARENTS SUCCEEDING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · The Dr Dane & Mary Louise Miller Foundation Inc · Hand Family Foundation Inc · Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation Inc Aka K21 Health Foundation · Terry L and Sandra K Tucker Family Foundation Trust · United Way of Kosciusko County Inc · Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Dekko Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Franklin I & Irene List Saemann Foundation 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.
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 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.
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