· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL HERITAGE TRUST | $225,000 |
| LIBERTI CHURCH | $100,000 |
| PERRY ROTARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF PERRY'S EDUCATIONAL FUTURE INC | $15,000 |
| PARKS AND TRAILS NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| ITHACA COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| SMALL THINGS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUZANNE'S COMFORT CARE (HOSPICE) | $10,000 |
| THE GEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES | $8,000 |
| WYOMING FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CYCLE CONNECT | $5,000 |
| THE ARC GLOW | $5,000 |
| THE BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION FOR WYOMING COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- PRPERRY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +58% · 56% of their budget
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC2× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +76%
Bucknell University2× · 2017–2018 · $36k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SSSUMMER SEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +56%
- SCSUZAANNE'S COMFORT CARE (HOSPICE)one grant, 2017 · $25k
- BPBRICK PRESBYTARIAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $11k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Broad Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PERRY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE GEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP PUZZLE PEACE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Parks & Trails New York Inc ↗
- Who funds GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ORLEANS-WYOMING COUNTIES NYSARC INC D/B/A ARC GLOW ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS ADVENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Mark L Serventi Family Foundation 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.
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% 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.