· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE LEWIS J & CLELIA M SERVENTI FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLISANO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| OCTAVIO ABURTO-REVIVE OUR OCEAN UC SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| WOMEN & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO | $50,000 |
| WILMOT CANCER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,622 |
| THE FND FOR PERRY'S EDUCATIONAL FUTURE | $25,000 |
| THE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOVER GREEN HOUSE-LONGMONT COMM FND | $20,000 |
| THE ARC OF LIVINGSTON WYOMING | $20,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $15,000 |
| MIKE ROWE WORKS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUZANNE'S COMFORT CARE HOME INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +30%- GCGENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ORLEANS-WYOMING COUNTIES NYSARC INC D/B/A ARC GLOW5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +151%
- MFMERCY FLIGHT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- OCOISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +145%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds SUZANNE'S COMFORT CARE HOME INC ↗
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- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Arts Council for Wyoming County ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lewis J & Clelia M Serventi Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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