· Private foundation
Seramur Family Foundation 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| GRAND THEATER | $50,000 |
| OPERATION BOOTSTRAP | $35,060 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA | $25,000 |
| ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| CITY OF STEVENS POINT | $17,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTAGE COU | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WIS | $1,000 |
| PORTAGE COUNTY CULTURAL FESTIVAL | $500 |
| TOMAHAWK LAKE ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE9× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +117%
- OBOPERATION BOOTSTRAP9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +144%
- UWUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF EMERSON PARKone grant, 2023 · $60k
- NJNATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INCone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Portage Lake environment preservation
The portage foundation inspires, impacts, and engages the portage county community by ensuring pathways of enduring support to meet local needs. we are committed to integrity and accountability in connecting donors with recipients,…
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
To shelter and find homes for injured, abused and abandoned animals,uphold and enforce animal cruelty laws, reduce pet overpopulation and educate the community.
To promote and assist the portage parks department
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Preservation, improvement of lake, and education of members
To assure the protection and stewardship of one of ohio's largest wetlands; to facilitate wetland conservation and restoration efforts in the more than 15,000 acres contiguous to and including the conservancy property; to increase research…
Historical education and preservation
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Portage County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Bootstrap. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 46 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHMEECKLE RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Tomahawk Lake Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Portage County Cultural Festival 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Peters Family Foundation Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Edward J Okray Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · McPartland Family Foundation Inc · Noel Family Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Seramur Family Foundation 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.