· Private foundation
H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MeckMIN | $3,000 |
| Interfaith Peace Working Group | $3,000 |
| Heart to Heart Comienzos East | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Kolbe House | $3,000 |
| Disciples Overseas Ministry | $2,500 |
| Stories of Immigrants | $2,250 |
| Bienstar Collective | $2,000 |
| Faith in Public Life | $2,000 |
| Abrahamic Reunion | $2,000 |
| Alliance for Nuclear Accountability | $2,000 |
| Movimiento Cosecha Support Network | $2,000 |
| Families for Freedom | $2,000 |
| Nuevos Vecinos | $2,000 |
| Worcester Interfaith Inc | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 16 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- JEJUBILEE ECONOMICS MINISTRIES3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +11%
- PRPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +27%
- FIFaith in Indiana2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- PHPendle Hillgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +107%
- WWWOMEN WONDER WRITERSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +177%
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.
Our mission is to reflect Gods intent for humanity, to live as a reconciled and and restored community. We stand in solidarity with immigrants by providing high quality, affordable immigration legal services and advocating for just…
Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…
To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
To empower communities, organizations and individuals to handle disputes constructively by developing and designing appropriate and creative solutions that address all interests, needs, and values.
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) empowers our communities, people of faith and congregations, mutual aid groups, network organizations, and individual volunteers, to make radical systemic change with love within Washtenaw…
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Churches for Middle East Peace and the most unlike its peers is Women Wonder Writers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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. 54 of the 91 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 JUBILEE ECONOMICS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Faith in Indiana ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY RESTORATIVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Interfaith Cooperation Inc ↗
- Who funds Discovering Broadway Inc ↗
- Who funds Casa De Paz ↗
- Who funds Pendle Hill ↗
- Who funds WOMEN WONDER WRITERS ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART COMIENZOS EAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SISTERS UNCHAINED INC ↗
- Who funds Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Peace and Justice Center ↗
- Who funds Justice Revival Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Lawyers Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Movimiento Cosecha Support Network ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE 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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Center · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust
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 H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc 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.
- Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
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.