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The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$584k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 35
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$16M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$584k18%
FY202332$571k16%
FY202231$643k10%
FY202135$475k29%
FY202034$360k41%
FY201924$245k54%
FY201813$173k31%
FY201712$133kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.6MEducation$289kEnvironment$272kHuman Services$224kArts & Culture$166kPublic Safety & Disaster$156kAnimals$67kFood & Nutrition$48kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Rochester: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Highland Foundation Inc: $130,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGenesee-Livingston-Orleans-Wyoming Counties Nysarc Inc D/B/A Arc Glow: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Flight Inc: $56,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSuzanne's Comfort Care Home Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation: $24,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEquicenter Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council for Wyoming County: $20,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetDare to Care Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOur Military Kids Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDirect Relief: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMikeroweworks Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gem Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNiwot Cultural Arts Association: $7,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Investigation Agency: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWyoming County Fair Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetChildrens Music Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerry Main Street Association Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDouble H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for Facial Reconstruction Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion Department of New York: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation

How much does The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation give?
The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $583,622 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (9%), Environment (9%).
Who are The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Salvation Army ($220k), University of Rochester ($150k), The Highland Foundation Inc ($130k).
Does The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family 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 The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc.
Where is The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation based?
The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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