Texas · Private foundation
Serafy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $511k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Serafy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $480k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $484k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $548k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $401k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $537k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $515k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $473k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $428k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Dallas | $606,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Schreiner University | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Museum of Brownsville Inc | $183,008 | 8 | 8% |
| College of American Pathologists | $155,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for a Globally Competitive Texas | $131,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Love Builds Hope Foundation | $110,000 | 4 | 6% |
| College of American Pathologists Foundation | $95,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Teach for America Inc | $64,195 | 8 | 0% |
| Hill Country Montessori School Inc | $63,398 | 4 | 2% |
| The Geneva School of Boerne | $52,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Serafy Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Serafy Foundation
- How much does Serafy Foundation give?
- Serafy Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $511,267 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Serafy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (11%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Serafy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Dallas ($606k), Schreiner University ($300k), Children's Museum of Brownsville Inc ($183k).
- Does Serafy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Serafy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Serafy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation, Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation, Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation.
- Where is Serafy Foundation based?
- Serafy Foundation is based in TX.
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