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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.
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 $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $675k
- $250k+1 grant · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Papal Foundation | $312,373 |
| Loras College | $200,000 |
| Eisenhower Medical Center Foundation | $200,000 |
| ACE Scholarships | $100,000 |
| Seeds of Hope | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $75,000 |
| Carmelite Sisters of Most Sacred Heart | $25,000 |
| Abbey of St Walburga | $25,000 |
| Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Bella Natural Women's Care | $12,000 |
| Birth Choice of the Desert | $10,000 |
| Faith & Reason Institute | $10,000 |
| St Francis Xavier | $5,000 |
| FOCUS | $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 (FY17–21, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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 +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- LCLORAS COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +11%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +27%
- CLCATHOLIC LAITY AND CLERGY FOR RENEWAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $125k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- COCOLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- CFColorado Family Action Foundationone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TVTHE VINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -36%
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.
Catholic leadership institute provides bishops, priests,religious, deacons and lay persons in the roman catholic church with world-class, pastoral leadership formation and consulting services that strengthen their confidence and competence…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with…
Catholic charities foundation invests endowment assets and provides financial support to catholic charities of the archdiocese of washington, an affiliated organization, which is a leading provider of comprehensive human services, serving…
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
Support of religious, educational, and charitable activities in furtherance of the catholic church and catholic diocese of columbus.
Fundraising for our customers in such a way to allow donors to experience the joy, power, and grace of giving so that others can encounter jesus christ.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The mission of the catholic community foundation of minnesota is to support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of our catholic community.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
The purpose of this organization is to foster a culture of catholic stewardship, providing a platform where people can connect, learn, and actively contribute to the well being of our society through catholic principles. the mission of the…
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Vine Foundation. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 66 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 LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LAITY AND CLERGY FOR RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLA NATURAL WOMEN'S CARE ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds One Simple Voice ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds ENDOW ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
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: 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
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 Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust 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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