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Serra Family 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 $10k21 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Everest Academy | $25,000 |
| Our Lady of the Lakes HS | $20,000 |
| St Vincent DePaul Society | $15,000 |
| Northwood University | $12,500 |
| Crossover Outreach | $10,000 |
| Lourdes Inc | $10,000 |
| Henry Ford Health System | $10,000 |
| Kinghts of Columbus Council | $10,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $10,000 |
| Open Door Outreach Center | $8,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Oakland County | $8,000 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $7,500 |
| Miracle League of Greater Flint | $5,000 |
| Building Beds 4 Kids | $5,000 |
| Waterford Senior Center | $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 (FY17–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SMST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +71%
- NUNorthwood University8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +6%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF THE LAKE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $25k
- OLOUR LADY OF THE LAKESone grant, 2017 · $8k
- V8VFW 882 AUXILARYone grant, 2021 · $6k
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 michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Creating healthy communities - together
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Creating healthy communities - together
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Map partners with veterans and people who have disabilities in support of their self-directed transformation to self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evangelical Homes of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Grand Blanc Grid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 83 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 ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GRAND BLANC GRID ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Consumers Energy Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Tuktawa Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Dte Energy Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation
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 Serra 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.
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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