· Private foundation
Serra Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Everest Academy | $30,000 |
| Lourdes Inc | $25,000 |
| Our Lady of the Lakes HS | $25,000 |
| Church of the Holy Family | $17,000 |
| Open Door Outreach Center | $11,000 |
| Friends of Berston Field House | $10,000 |
| St Vincent DePaul Society | $10,000 |
| Knights of Columbus Council | $10,000 |
| Stewardship for Saints and Scholars | $10,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $10,000 |
| Northwood University | $9,539 |
| Habitat for Humanity Oakland County | $8,000 |
| Crossroads Care Center | $7,500 |
| C S Mott Children's Hospital | $7,500 |
| Flint National Giving Alliance | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +71%
- NUNorthwood University9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +6%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF THE LAKE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $25k
- COCROSSOVER OUTREACHone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +9%
- OLOUR LADY OF THE LAKESone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
Mclaren oakland provides primary and specialty health care services guided by the priciples of osteopathic medicine and the values of integrity, excellence, diversity, and intelligence. we aspire to enhance the quality of life and health…
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
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.…
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…
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 94 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 ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GRAND BLANC GRID ↗
- Who funds FISH INC OF GRAND BLANC CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Serra Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serra Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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