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The Robin y and Frank M Semple Family Foundation at a glance

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The Robin y and Frank M Semple Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$257k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$243k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$265kArts & Culture$13kReligion$7kHuman Services$5kHealth$3kAnimals$600Recreation & Sports$460Housing & Shelter$370Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $243k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION$243,493
NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM$10,000
VALLEY VILLAGE CHILD CARE$3,000
ROUTE 66 PET RESCUE$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VALLEY VILLAGE CHILD CARE: $3k → 12%VALLEY VILLAGE CHILD CARE: $1k → 12%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%PLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER FDN: $1k → 12%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 3 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$32k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +139%
  • STAND IN THE GAP INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +40%
  • VV
    VALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEMPLE FAMILY MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -100%
  • NP
    NORTH PLATTE VALLEY MED CTR
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • P
    PVCC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in

Education and preservation of western heritage

Arts & Culture
2
The Sherman Museum

Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.

Arts & Culture
3
Stillwater Historical Society

To record and preserve the history and artifacts of Stillwater County and the vicinity. To build, maintain and operate a local museum to house and display a collection of such artifacts and memorabilia deemed to be unique to our area and…

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4
Will Rogers Memorial Foundation

Support Will Rogers Memorial Museums

Philanthropy
5
Freestone County Historical and Museum Association Inc

To honor the history of Freestone County

Arts & Culture
6
Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza

To honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864

Arts & Culture
7
Sumter Museum

Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets

Arts & Culture
8
Oklahoma Pharmacy Heritage Foundation Inc

Creation and maitenance of historical museum.

Arts & Culture
9
The Shoshone Museum Association

To preserve, interpret, and display local and natural history for education purposes.

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10
Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center

Education, reearch, and trainng

Animals
11
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
12
Sand Springs Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote and grow local businesses and grow and develop the local community.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Semple Family Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $243,493 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherNORTH PLATTE VALLEY MED CTR: $2,500 · OtherPVCC: $2,150 · OtherADVENTURES IN MISSIONS INC: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,230 · OtherSTAND IN THE GAP INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE: $4,000 · Human ServicesPLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesSEMPLE FAMILY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,950 · PhilanthropySANGHA INC: $500 · HealthOKLAHOMA WESTIE RESCUE FOUNDATION: $200 · Animals
Education$265,493Other$16,880Human Services$11,000Philanthropy$2,950Health$500Animals$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $243,493 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND IN THE GAP INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSEMPLE FAMILY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,950 over 1y, 11% of budgetPLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANGHA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robin y and Frank M Semple Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robin y and Frank M Semple Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Robin y and Frank M Semple Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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