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Serafy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| UTRGV | $56,000 |
| COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS | $40,350 |
| THE LOVE BUILDS HOPE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $31,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE | $26,815 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $26,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS | $25,000 |
| DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| MARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH | $20,100 |
| FOUNDATION FOR A GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE TEXAS | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPH ACADEMY | $12,050 |
| BURNING TREE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- UOUniversity of Dallas8× · 2017–2024 · $606k · revenue +36%
- SUSchreiner University6× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +86%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- BLBAYLOR LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS THE LONGHORN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BSBASILICA SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF SAN JUANone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The baylor oral health foundation was established to foster and support the activities and program of the texas a&m university college of dentistry (the college) to provide financial support for excellence at the college, and to advance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Brownsville Historical Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 112 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 University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds College of American Pathologists ↗
- Who funds Foundation for a Globally Competitive Texas ↗
- Who funds LOVE BUILDS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College of American Pathologists Foundation ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF BOERNE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Driscoll Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURNING TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN PORTER PARK RENOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation · Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · The Farris Foundation · Hernandez Foundation · Musk Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc
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 Serafy 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.
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.
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