Michigan · Private foundation
Serra Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $265k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Serra Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $250k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $193k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $173k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $162k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $233k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $217k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $190k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $192k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everest Academy Inc | $260,500 | 9 | n/a |
| St Mary - St Paul Ministry | $131,500 | 9 | 19% |
| Northwood University | $110,539 | 9 | 0% |
| Lourdes Inc | $93,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc | $63,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Open Door Outreach Center Inc | $57,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Friendship Circle | $33,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Henry Ford Health System | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Grand Blanc Grid | $25,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Fish Inc of Grand Blanc Chapter | $24,500 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($776k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Serra Family 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Serra Family Foundation
- How much does Serra Family Foundation give?
- Serra Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $264,689 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Serra Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Human Services (20%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Serra Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Everest Academy Inc ($261k), St Mary - St Paul Ministry ($132k), Northwood University ($111k).
- Does Serra Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Serra Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Serra Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
- Where is Serra Family Foundation based?
- Serra Family Foundation is based in MI.
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