· Private foundation
The Semler Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $20,400 |
| INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| BISHOP CHATARD HIGH SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS INC | $8,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE | $5,600 |
| CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL | $5,600 |
| PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL-GRANT | $5,200 |
| GUERIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC | $2,900 |
| RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
| THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
53 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- IHINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +173%
- MUMarian University4× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +14%
- 5F500 Festival Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CPCONNOR PRAIRIE (CAPITAL CAMPAIGN)one grant, 2021 · $10k
- IIRTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Little Angel Gowns Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 103 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 INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds 500 Festival Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER SALON PATRONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CULVER COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lacy Foundation · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community 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 The Semler 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.