· Private foundation
Leo Sellmeyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AR STATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $9,500 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES HOSPITAL | $4,500 |
| AG FOR AUTISM | $4,500 |
| ARKANSAS SEED DEALERS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $2,000 |
| VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| KNOBEL CEMETERY FUND | $1,000 |
| WINGS OF HONOR MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SHEPHERD MTN HORSE RESCUE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENTS DE PAUL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAg for Autism9× · 2017–2026 · $24k · revenue +65%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2021–2026 · $22k · revenue +74%- ASARKANSAS SEED DEALERS ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2026 · $11k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- HCHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -9%
- KVKNOBEL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Ovarian cancer research alliance (ocra) is committed to preventing, developing better treatments for and ultimately curing ovarian and related gynecologic cancers through innovative research, raising awareness and ensuring the best care…
American lebanese syrian associated charities, inc. (alsac) was founded in 1957 and exists solely to raise funds and build awareness to sustain and grow the mission of st. jude children's research hospital, inc. to advance cures, and means…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The fore hadley foundation was created to drive awareness and generate funding for families and children affected by congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh). cdh is a rare birth defect that effects roughly 1 in every 2,500 live births per…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Dup15q alliance empowers individuals living with dup15q syndrome and other related rare diseases to reach their full potential by advancing breakthrough research and life-changing therapeutic treatments, supporting families affected by…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leo Sellmeyer Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo Sellmeyer Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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