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Mark L Serventi Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$455k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$225,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Mark L Serventi Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$447k17%
FY202418$362k28%
FY202316$375k25%
FY202215$393k13%
FY202115$326k13%
FY202021$291k24%
FY201919$227k26%
FY201818$209k33%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCivil Rights$451kEducation$355kReligion$211kCommunity Improvement$173kHealth$167kInternational$163kPhilanthropy$63kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
AZ
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Natural Heritage Trust$1,050,64572%
Perry Rotary Foundation Inc$150,500956%
Cycle Connect Inc$138,00095%
Elevate 215$61,09940%
Open Space Institute Inc$51,00021%
Bucknell University$36,08620%
Summer Search$30,00010%
The Gem Foundation$20,00021%
Camp Puzzle Peace$18,00072%
Smile Train Inc$15,19790%
Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mark L Serventi Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNatural Heritage Trust: $1,050,645 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetPerry Rotary Foundation Inc: $150,500 over 9y, 56% of budgetCycle Connect Inc: $138,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetElevate 215: $61,099 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Space Institute Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBucknell University: $36,086 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Search: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Gem Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCamp Puzzle Peace: $18,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $15,197 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Alliance Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenesee-Livingston-Orleans-Wyoming Counties Nysarc Inc D/B/A Arc Glow: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBritish Schools & Universities Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $4,994 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Erie College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilderness Adventures Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGoodwill of the Finger Lakes Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Florida Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Vision Enterprises Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Cariola Children's Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Mark L Serventi Family Foundation

How much does Mark L Serventi Family Foundation give?
Mark L Serventi Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $455,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mark L Serventi Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Civil Rights (16%), Education (13%).
Who are Mark L Serventi Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Natural Heritage Trust ($1.1M), Perry Rotary Foundation Inc ($151k), Cycle Connect Inc ($138k).
Does Mark L Serventi Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark L Serventi Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mark L Serventi Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc, Greater Rochester Health Foundation.
Where is Mark L Serventi Family Foundation based?
Mark L Serventi Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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