Texas · Private foundation
Semmes Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $272k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Semmes Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $272k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $27M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $5.3M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $2.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $437k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $48k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity University | $27,221,000 | 4 | 8% |
| San Antonio Academy of Texas | $5,000,000 | 1 | 41% |
| McNay Art Museum | $689,600 | 4 | 4% |
| Brackenridge Park Conservancy | $250,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Museum of New Mexico Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Antonio Public Library Foundation | $70,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Meals on Wheels San Antonio | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Opera San Antonio Dba Opera San An | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity University | $27,221,000 | 4 | 8% |
| San Antonio Academy of Texas | $5,000,000 | 1 | 41% |
| McNay Art Museum | $689,600 | 4 | 4% |
| Brackenridge Park Conservancy | $250,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Museum of New Mexico Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Antonio Public Library Foundation | $70,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Meals on Wheels San Antonio | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Opera San Antonio Dba Opera San An | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Christus Children's Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $16,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas Bar Foundation | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Diaper Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Philanthropy Southwest | $2,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Southwest School of Art | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Semmes Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Impetus Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Fb Doane Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About Semmes Foundation Inc
- How much does Semmes Foundation Inc give?
- Semmes Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $271,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Semmes Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Philanthropy (15%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Semmes Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Trinity University ($27M), San Antonio Academy of Texas ($5.0M), McNay Art Museum ($690k).
- Does Semmes Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Semmes Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Semmes Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, Impetus Foundation, Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600.
- Where is Semmes Foundation Inc based?
- Semmes Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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