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Every dollar here is tied to a specific thing a child receives. If we cannot tell you where it went, that is our problem, not yours.
Monthly is worth substantially more to us. Predictable income is the only reason we can promise a child three years. Cancel any time.
Payment is handled by a verified third-party processor, which confirms our 501(c)(3) status, takes the payment and issues your receipt immediately. This site never touches or stores card details.
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| Legal name | Semper Foundation |
| EIN | 13-4141897 |
| Tax status | 501(c)(3) tax-exempt |
| Verification | Goodstack verified |
Our promise to you
A receipt, an annual report, and two program updates. No emergency appeal blasts. No “your impact is about to expire.”
Including major donors. We are glad to talk. You start it.
Including the donor-list exchanges between charities that are standard practice in this sector. We do not do it.
No “are you sure” interstitial, no “reduce frequency instead” detour. Same for cancelling a monthly gift.
Why we keep pushing monthly
$15/mo
We promise a child three years of a mentor, four years of a scholarship, thirty-eight uninterrupted weekends of food. Every one of those commitments requires knowing, at the moment we make it, what next year's income looks like. A one-time gift, however large, cannot underwrite the word always.
Monthly donors form the recurring baseline, and that baseline decides directly how many children we can take on. The goal is for it to cover 80% of program expenses; at that point a bad fundraising year stops being some child's interruption. Where we actually stand will be published in the first annual report. Until then we are not going to hand you a percentage you cannot check.
Other ways to give
Free doubling
Most large U.S. employers match one-to-one, some two-to-one, and most employees have never checked. Our Goodstack verification makes us a standard qualifying recipient. Checking takes about five minutes and may double your gift at no extra cost to you.
Usually the best deal
Donating securities held over a year usually lets you deduct the full market value and skip the capital gains tax entirely. Better for you and better for us than selling first and giving cash. Write to us for transfer instructions.
Zero fees
If you hold a DAF at Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable or Vanguard Charitable, recommend a grant to us using the EIN below. No processing fee, so the whole amount lands in the programs.
Age 70½+
From 70½ you can transfer directly from an IRA. The amount is excluded from taxable income and can count toward your required minimum distribution. Confirm applicability with your tax adviser; we do not give tax advice.
Best-shaped money we get
A line in a will, or naming us as a beneficiary on a policy or retirement account. Legacy gifts are the only money whose time horizon actually matches a three-year promise. They let us hold places for children not yet nominated. No legacy society, no plaques, no recognition dinners.
Costs you nothing here
Roughly 75% of U.S. districts carry unpaid student meal debt. Many accept donations straight through their meal payment platform or local education foundation. Call your district's Nutrition Services office and ask what is currently outstanding. Many carry only $20,000–30,000 a year, which a single community effort can clear. Nothing to do with us, but it works.
About giving
Yes. Semper Foundation is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, EIN 13-4141897. Gifts are deductible for U.S. taxpayers to the extent allowed by law, and you can verify the EIN yourself in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. A receipt is issued immediately on completion.
Card details never pass through this site and are not stored in any system of ours. Payment is handled by a processor certified to ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS, which also verifies our charitable status, issues a compliant receipt and transfers the funds to us. One fewer party touching your payment details is a feature, not a compromise. It also means we cannot see your card number even if we wanted to.
Yes. There is a cancellation link in every receipt email; it takes effect immediately, with no retention screen and no follow-up call asking why. If you want to tell us why, we will read it. We will not press. Writing to donate@semperfoundation.blog works equally well.
Because restricted money legally cannot be moved. Here is the real scenario: backpacks get over-subscribed in August while the food fund is $12,000 short the same month, and we sit looking at money we are not allowed to touch. You are entirely within your rights to restrict a gift and we will honour it exactly. We just want you to know where the cost lands.
Not necessarily. Apply the same scepticism to our numbers. The overhead ratio is the easiest figure to manipulate: book the supervising social worker's salary as “program” and it rises; pay staff below retention and it rises again. Two better questions to ask any charity, including us: how do you know it worked, and who tells me when it did not?
Usually no, and we will be honest about why: sorting, inspecting, storing and disposing of unusable in-kind donations often costs more than the goods are worth, and we buy at bulk prices well below retail. More importantly, a child receiving visibly second-hand things learns immediately which category they have been put in. The exceptions are new, boxed, uniform-spec supplies or food, and used laptops that can be fully wiped and run a current OS. Contact us first for either. We do not accept used clothing at all.