Indiana · Private foundation
The Semler Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Semler Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $101k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $95k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $98k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $133k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $128k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $128k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Historical Society | $61,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Marian University | $47,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc | $46,000 | 4 | 0% |
| 500 Festival Foundation Inc | $32,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Seeds of Hope Inc | $26,700 | 6 | 0% |
| St Theodore Guerin High School | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Holy Angels Inc | $15,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Crossroads of America Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $12,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Hoosier Salon Patrons Association Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($318k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Semler Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Semler Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Semler Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Semler Family Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $101,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Semler Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (22%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Semler Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Indiana Historical Society ($62k), Marian University ($48k), Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ($46k).
- Does The Semler Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Semler Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Semler Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc.
- Where is The Semler Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Semler Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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