· Private foundation
Semmler Fund Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON CHURCH COOPERATION | $18,000 |
| DUNCANVILLE OUTREACH MINISTRY | $18,000 |
| IN THE PINK | $18,000 |
| CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH | $13,500 |
| LIFE LINE SHELTER FOR FAMILIES | $12,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WELAKA | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TEXAS PYTHIAN HOME INC | $2,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CFCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +23%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +29%- YAYoung America's Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- LSLIFELINE SHELTERone grant, 2018 · $6k
- DADAILY AUDIO BIBLEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue 0%
- FHFellowship Housing Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +271%
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.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The mission of st paul's formed and sustained by the judeo-christian faith and historically related to the united church of christ, is to provide meaning and richness to the life of each resident and health care services for those who seek…
The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
To support and help expand the ministry of christian care by teaching generous giving, securing philanthropic gifts and administering such gifts with biblical principles.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 25 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 COMMITTEE ON CHURCH COOPERATION ↗
- Who funds Duncanville Outreach Ministry ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FUNK-ZITIELLO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAILY AUDIO BIBLE ↗
- Who funds Fellowship Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PYTHIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Semmler Fund Inc 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.