Maryland · Private foundation
The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $247k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $247k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $275k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $345k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $327k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $308k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland Center on Economic Policy Inc | $92,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Maryland Philanthropy Network | $87,930 | 5 | 1% |
| Baltimore Community Toolbank Inc | $74,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Adoptions Together Inc Dba as Paths for Families | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Light House Inc | $46,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freestate Justice Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Literacy Council of Frederick County Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp | $43,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Beyond Shelter Frederick Inc | $42,500 | 3 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($352k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Ausherman Family Trust · Ausherman Family Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc
- How much does The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc give?
- The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $246,823 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Maryland Center on Economic Policy Inc ($92k), Maryland Philanthropy Network ($88k), Baltimore Community Toolbank Inc ($75k).
- Does The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ausherman Family Trust, Ausherman Family Foundation, The Abell Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc based?
- The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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