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Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$925k
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 Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Human ServicesHealthOther
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 arriving12$53k25%
FY20248$41k13%
FY20236$24k33%
FY20225$27k40%
FY20217$23k71%
FY20209$13k67%
FY20193$8k33%
FY20182$6k50%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$104kHousing & Shelter$31kHuman Services$20kHealth$17kEnvironment$14kEducation$14kYouth Development$4kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
TX
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
Seed House Project$31,00055%
Connections Church$24,9945n/a
Charlotte Rescue Mission$16,50040%
Grace Centers of Hope$13,60030%
Schoolcraft College Foundation$10,46040%
Reliant Mission Inc$10,2003n/a
Focus on the Family$6,6003n/a
Exodus Church$3,0001n/a
Vision Church Inc$2,0001n/a
Schoolcraft College$1,2001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($79k), not named here.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio

How much does Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio give?
Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio reported 12 grants totaling $52,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seed House Project ($31k), Connections Church ($25k), Charlotte Rescue Mission ($17k).
Does Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio based?
Paul and Marlene Serwinek Foundatio is based in NC.

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 24 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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