· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Semmler Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Semmler Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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