· Public charity
Specialty Equipment Market Association & Performance Racing Inc
Sema's mission is to help our members' businesses succeed and prosper.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEMA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $109,859 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,310 |
| OFF-ROAD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| REAL DEAL REVOLUTION | $10,000 |
| AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -13% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SESPECIALTY EQUIPMENT WARRANTY ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2024 · $20M · revenue -78% · 91% of their budget
- SMSEMA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +69% · 69% of their budget
- HRHOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $668k · revenue -41% · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- ACAUTO CLUB SPEEDWAYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- NVNHRA VISIONone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue -46%
- CICHILDHELP INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -30%
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT WARRANTY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SEMA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds HOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Learning Centers at Fairplex ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NHRA VISION ↗
- Who funds REAL DEAL REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Specialty Equipment Market Association & Performance Racing Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Specialty Equipment Market Association & Performance Racing Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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