Missouri · Private foundation
Seruga R Char
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $745k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Seruga R Char funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 5 | $39k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $35k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $37k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $31k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $24k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $40k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $46k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $32k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Connect Co | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| YWCA Allentown | $15,250 | 4 | 2% |
| Allentown Art Museum | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Allentown Symphony Association Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Bike Works | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Lehigh Conference of Churches | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Camelot for Children | $7,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seruga R Char 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: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Leona Gruber Charitable Trust · The Rider-Pool Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation
How this is measured
About Seruga R Char
- How much does Seruga R Char give?
- Seruga R Char reported 5 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seruga R Char fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Seruga R Char's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Food Connect Co ($25k), Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc ($16k), YWCA Allentown ($15k).
- Does Seruga R Char fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seruga R Char accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seruga R Char?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harry C Trexler Estate, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley.
- Where is Seruga R Char based?
- Seruga R Char is based in MO.
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