· Private foundation
Serafy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS ACADEMIC RISING SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SRST RITA CATHOLIC COMMUNITYone grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BURNING TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Serafy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serafy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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