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H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc at a glance

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H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$54kCrime & Legal$50kCivil Rights$32kInternational$27kHuman Services$14kYouth Development$14kArts & Culture$11kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$555k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MeckMIN$3,000
Interfaith Peace Working Group$3,000
Heart to Heart Comienzos East$3,000
Kolbe House$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Disciples Overseas Ministry$2,500
Stories of Immigrants$2,250
Nuevos Vecinos$2,000
Faith in Public Life$2,000
Movimiento Cosecha Support Network$2,000
Abrahamic Reunion$2,000
Bienstar Collective$2,000
Families for Freedom$2,000
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability$2,000
Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Supporting Area Families Everyday: $2k → 12%Be A Friend Project: $2k → 6%Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund: $1k → 12%Neighbor to Neighbor: $2k → 13%Ransburg YMCA: $2k → 16%Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund: $1k → 12%Faith in Indiana: $3k → 16%Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc: $2k → 16%QC Family Tree: $2k → 10%Faith in Indiana: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 13%.

H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 21 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
54

Total granted

$92k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JE
    JUBILEE ECONOMICS MINISTRIES
    3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +11%
  • PR
    PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +27%
  • FI
    Faith in Indiana
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SU
    SISTERS UNCHAINED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +55%
  • IP
    Irondale Productions Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -12%
  • PH
    Pendle Hillgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +107%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jubilee Immigration Advocates

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…

Human Services
2
Redeeming Justice Network

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…

Civil Rights
3
Interfaith Worker Justice

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:…

Religion
4
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
5
Center for Conflict Resolution

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.

—
6
American Interfaith Institute
Religion
7
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

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.

Civil Rights
8
The Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc
Religion
9
Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice

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…

Civil Rights
10
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
11
Injustice Watch Nfp

Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.

Civil Rights
12
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Churches for Middle East Peace; 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.
05the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amate House: $8,000 · OtherAmate HouseMeckMIN: $7,200 · OtherMeckMINGlobal Ministries: $6,000 · OtherMediation and Restorative Services: $5,000 · Other+44 more: $86,900 · Other+44 moreJUBILEE ECONOMICS MINISTRIES: $6,900 · ReligionJUBILEE ECONOMIC…PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,000 · ReligionPARISH RESOURCE …INTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $4,000 · ReligionINTERFAITH CENTE…Center for Interfaith Cooperation Inc: $4,000 · ReligionCenter for Inter…Justice Revival Inc: $2,500 · ReligionJustice Revival …ENFLESHED: $2,000 · ReligionENFLESHEDFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $2,000 · ReligionFAITH IN PUBLIC …KIRKRIDGE INC: $2,000 · ReligionKIRKRIDGE INCABRAHAMIC HOUSE: $2,000 · ReligionABRAHAMIC HOUSE+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $5,000 · InternationalAlliance fo…CONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $4,000 · InternationalCONGO LEADE…THE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $3,000 · InternationalTHE EUPHRAT…Peace and Justice Center: $2,750 · InternationalPeace and J…CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $2,000 · InternationalCHURCHES FO…Southern California Immigration Project: $2,000 · InternationalSouthern Ca…ABRAHAMIC REUNION INC: $2,000 · InternationalABRAHAMIC R…ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY: $2,000 · InternationalALLIANCE FO…ST CROIX VALLEY RESTORATIVE SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalST CROIX VA…HEART TO HEART COMIENZOS EAST INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalHEART TO HE…MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $3,000 · Crime & LegalMABEL CENTE…Community Lawyers Inc: $2,500 · Crime & LegalCommunity L…HMONG AMERICAN MEDIATION CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalHMONG AMERI…COMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY D…THE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalTHE MEDIATI…INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalPEACE AND JUSTICE LAW CENTER: $1,000 · Crime & LegalDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalFaith in Indiana: $5,500 · Human ServicesFaith in I…Casa De Paz: $3,500 · Human ServicesCasa De Pa…THE QC FAMILY TREE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE QC FAM…Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesExodus Ref…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR T…COLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO I…SUPPORTING AREA FAMILIES EVERYDAY: $1,500 · Human ServicesSUPPORTING…BE A FRIEND PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesBE A FRIEN…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $1,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men'…Movimiento Cosecha Support Network: $2,000 · Civil RightsTexas Defender Service: $2,000 · Civil RightsFAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsFUND FOR EMPOWERMENT: $1,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN WONDER WRITERS: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$113,100Religion$32,400International$22,750Crime & Legal$22,500Human Services$21,500Civil Rights$7,000Arts & Culture$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUBILEE ECONOMICS MINISTRIES: $6,900 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFaith in Indiana: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY RESTORATIVE SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Interfaith Cooperation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCasa De Paz: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDiscovering Broadway Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIrondale Productions Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPendle Hill: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN WONDER WRITERS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPeace and Justice Center: $2,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJustice Revival Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Lawyers Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetABARA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENFLESHED: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOPE DEALERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE QC FAMILY TREE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIRKRIDGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABRAHAMIC HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetExodus Refugee Immigration Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Immigration Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Defender Service: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOREVER KIDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORTING AREA FAMILIES EVERYDAY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER INTERFAITH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBE A FRIEND PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Church Big Table: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFUND FOR EMPOWERMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEACE AND JUSTICE LAW CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…E Rhodes and Leona B …Proteus Fund IncFoundation to Promote…NEO Philanthropy IncTides CenterRockefeller Philanthr…Boston Foundation IncTides FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…The Chicago Community…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • Peace and Justice Center: 41% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home