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WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION

WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,500 to it, the largest being JOHN AND LORANNE EHLENBACH FOUNDATION INC ($66,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$16k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$67k
Net assets
$257k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Wayne Heidel-Jennifer Semmann Foundation does

Mission

Making grants to wisconsin high schools and colleges in support of scholarship programs.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Payments were made to nine high schools and/or colleges for the purpose of supporting the recipients' scholarship programs.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($31k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($229k)2018 Revenue 91 ($28k) Expenses 98 ($17k) Net assets 105 ($240k)2019 Revenue 102 ($31k) Expenses 97 ($17k) Net assets 111 ($254k)2020 Revenue 62 ($19k) Expenses 97 ($17k) Net assets 112 ($257k)2021 Revenue 54 ($16k) Expenses 94 ($16k) Net assets 112 ($257k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (54)Expenses (94)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $240k to $254k (+6%).

$229k
$240k
$254k
$257k
$257k
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$11k
’18
$14k
’19
$2k
’20
$163
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $12k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
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’22
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,726 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

Organizations like WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

30%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION?
WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,500 to it, the largest being JOHN AND LORANNE EHLENBACH FOUNDATION INC ($66,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $66,500 in grants to WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION?
JOHN AND LORANNE EHLENBACH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAYNE HEIDEL-JENNIFER SEMMANN FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing