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Se-Ma-No Electric Foundation

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$89kEducation$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kYouth Development$8kHealth$7kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sleep in Heavenly Peace$4,500
Care to Learn Seymour Chapter$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Mansfield Shoe Distribution Committee$2,000
Newborns In Need SW MO Chapter$2,000
Pregnancy Resource Center$2,000
Mountain Grove High School Robotics$1,870
Tri County Fair$1,820
Top of the Ozarks Shooting Facility$1,500
Seymour Project Graduation$1,500
University of Missouri Columbia$1,000
Ozark Technical College$1,000
Mansfield Senior Citizen Club$1,000
NALTC$1,000
Missouri State University$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Pregnancy Resource Center: $3k → 23%Pregnancy Resource Center: $2k → 23%Ozarks Family YMCA: $2k → 16%Pregnancy Resource Center: $1k → 23%Ozarks Family YMCA: $2k → 16%Foster Adopt Connect: $1k → 23%Pregnancy Resource Center: $500 → 23%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 29 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
80

Total granted

$126k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+1%

Still filing today

21%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TF
    TRI-COUNTY FAIR INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +99%
  • EU
    Evangel University
    4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
    3× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • SL
    Seymour Lions Club
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • SA
    Seymour Arts Council
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • WC
    Wright County Need Food Pantry
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
2
Southwestern Christian College

Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.

Education
3
Spring Arbor University

Spring arbor university is a community of learners distinguished by our lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts, total commitment to jesus christ as the perspective for learning and critical participation in…

Education
4
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
5
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
6
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
7
Oklahoma Baptist University

As a christian liberal arts university, oklahoma baptist university transforms lives by equipping students to pursue academic excellence, integrate faith with all areas of knowledge, engage a diverse world, and live worthy of the high…

Education
8
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
9
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
10
University of Dubuque

The university of dubuque is a private university offering undergraduate, graduate, and theological seminary degrees, and other educational opportunities with the intention of educating and forming the whole person. the university is…

Education
11
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
12
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozarks Family Ymca Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Baptist University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 124 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Missouri State University: $13,500 · OtherMissouri State UniversityIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSeymour Community Library: $8,440 · Other+111 more: $134,143 · Other+111 moreEvangel University: $6,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $5,000 · EducationDrury University: $1,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTHE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER AKA ASPIRE WOMEN'S CENTER: $6,899 · Human ServicesOZARKS FAMILY YMCA INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY FAIR INC: $6,837 · Youth DevelopmentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$167,083Education$13,000Human Services$11,899Youth Development$6,837Housing & Shelter$6,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER AKA ASPIRE WOMEN'S CENTER: $6,899 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY FAIR INC: $6,837 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel University: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOZARKS FAMILY YMCA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDrury University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER AKA ASPIRE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Evangel University ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Se-Ma-No Electric Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Se-Ma-No Electric Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 124 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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