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Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$312,373
Organizations funded a year
5 to 24
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPublic BenefitCivil RightsHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$1.1M40%
FY202410$797k50%
FY20235$409k20%
FY20225$330k80%
FY202117$571k24%
FY202021$250k43%
FY201823$760k48%
FY201724$637kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.6MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$965kPhilanthropy$568kHealth$352kPublic Benefit$172kYouth Development$25kCivil Rights$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Loras College$1,335,00061%
Seeds of Hope$600,0005n/a
The Papal Foundation$531,5364n/a
Alliance for Choice in Education$200,00020%
Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal Inc$125,000215%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$103,0005n/a
Colorado Opportunity Foundation$100,000111%
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc$72,00021%
Augustine Institute Inc$50,00010%
The Vine Foundation$50,00012%
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All grantees of Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Loras College$1,335,00061%
Seeds of Hope$600,0005n/a
The Papal Foundation$531,5364n/a
Alliance for Choice in Education$200,00020%
Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal Inc$125,000215%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$103,0005n/a
Colorado Opportunity Foundation$100,000111%
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc$72,00021%
Augustine Institute Inc$50,00010%
The Vine Foundation$50,00012%
Bella Natural Women's Care$42,00021%
Martha's Village and Kitchen Inc$32,50021%
Haven of Hope$27,50041%
Abbey of St Walburga Inc$25,0001n/a
Cfa Foundation$25,00019%
Sacred Heart Church$15,0001n/a
One Simple Voice$15,00047%
Sacred Heart School$15,0003n/a
Colorado Uplift Inc$15,00020%
Regis Jesuit High School$11,5003n/a
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged$11,50040%
Endow$11,00011%
Faith and Reason$10,00011%
St Marys Church$10,0001n/a
Birth Choice of the Desert$10,0001n/a
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation$10,00010%
Urban Youth Ministries$10,00012%
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart$10,0001n/a
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Inc$10,0001n/a
National Catholic Bioethics Center$10,0001n/a
Arrupe Jesuit High School$9,5003n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious$5,0001n/a
Families of Character$5,00011%
Junipero Serra High School a Corp$5,0001n/a
St Thomas More Newman Center$2,5001n/a
Domus Pacis Family Respite Inc$2,00030%
St Josephs Indian School$1,0001n/a
Little Sisters of the Poor Baltimore Inc$1,00010%
American Friends of Our Armed Forces Walt Vanbenthysen$50010%

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLoras College: $1,335,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetColorado Opportunity Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEthics and Public Policy Center Inc: $72,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Vine Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBella Natural Women's Care: $42,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMartha's Village and Kitchen Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHaven of Hope: $27,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCfa Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetOne Simple Voice: $15,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetColorado Uplift Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEndow: $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFaith and Reason: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Youth Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies of Character: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDomus Pacis Family Respite Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Baltimore Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Our Armed Forces Walt Vanbenthysen: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Catholic Foundation No ColoradoCO42.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · The Martin Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman · John & Florence Fortune Foundation · Jk Mullen Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Schmitz Family Foundation CO Ann McBournie · Priester Foundation · Weckbaugh Foundation

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.

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About Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust

How much does Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust give?
Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $1,115,373 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (22%), Religion (20%).
Who are Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Loras College ($1.3M), Seeds of Hope ($600k), The Papal Foundation ($532k).
Does Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Catholic Foundation No Colorado, The Martin Family Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust based?
Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust is based in CO.

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 66 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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