Delaware · Private foundation
Serve to Lead Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $297k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Serve to Lead Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 2 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $5k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $5k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $2k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $2k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $4k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $2k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $4k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $9,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Law Institute | $5,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Theodore Roosevelt Association | $3,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Foundation for Independent Voter Education | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| National Constitution Center | $1,800 | 4 | 0% |
| National Wwi Museum and Memorial | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Old Globe Theatre | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Isidore Newman School | $1,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Purpose LLC | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($700), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Serve to Lead Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Serve to Lead Foundation
- How much does Serve to Lead Foundation give?
- Serve to Lead Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $6,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Serve to Lead Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (29%), Arts & Culture (25%), Environment (22%).
- Who are Serve to Lead Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc ($10k), Environmental Law Institute ($5k), Theodore Roosevelt Association ($3k).
- Does Serve to Lead Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Serve to Lead Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Serve to Lead Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Serve to Lead Foundation based?
- Serve to Lead Foundation is based in DE.
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