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Seme Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COOKEVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $75,000 |
| HOPE CENTER ADOPTION AND FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED RANCH | $50,000 |
| GRASSROOTS PEOPLE'S FUND | $30,000 |
| WESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| COOKEVILLE CRISIS PREGNANCY CLINIC | $25,000 |
| COOKEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL - TRACK AND FIELD | $5,000 |
| TENNESSEE CENTRAL RAILWAY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- MSMUSTARD SEED RANCH6× · 2019–2024 · $231k · revenue +11%
- CRCOOKEVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC2× · 2019–2024 · $175k
- CCCOOKEVILLE CRISIS PREGNANCY CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $80k
Funded once
- AIASHRAF ISLAM ENGINEERING BUILDINGone grant, 2022 · $500k
- TTTennessee Technological University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +65%
- HFHabitat for Humanitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +30% · 57% of their budget
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.
Ministry to Hurting Teens and Families
Secondary education in bible & theology
Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ
Religious Activities
Religious
Medical missions, feeding centers, church planting childrens home
Seminary to Ordain Unity Ministers
Mission organization focused on global church planting
Support bible college in Uganda
To teach, preach, proclaim, publish, distribute and disseminate the gospel and doctrine of the christian faith. the ministry reaches approximately 1.5 million persons through its outreach ministries.
Shining christ's light of hope in a broken and hurting world. hope ministries is a nonprofit christian family that cares for orphans, provides medical care and supplies, provided educational and spiritual support, and brings faith, hope…
Support for and operation of a school in Uganda
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Wesley College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 Tennessee Technological University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Adoption and Family Services ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP PUTNAM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SMILES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds RISING ABOVE 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Seme Foundation 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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