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The Seraph Foundation Inc 6018-01-41

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.

$75k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$345kPhilanthropy$300kEducation$175kInternational$75kEnvironment$45kHuman Services$45kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$25,000
BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $20k → 9%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $25k → 11%LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
IN
OH
PA
CT
NM
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 5 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$2.6M
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $245k · revenue +79%
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +40%
  • SC
    SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT
    2× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • DW
    DENISON WELLNESS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AW
    AMERICARES - WEST COAST WILD FIRES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AH
    AMERICARES - HURRICANE IDA RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Lancaster General Health

Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.

Health
3
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
4
Lungevity Foundation Inc

Lungevity's vision is a world where no one dies of lung cancer. lungevity foundation is firmly committed to making an immediate impact on increasing quality-of-life and survivorship of people with lung cancer by accelerating research into…

Health
5
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

The lucile packard foundation for children's health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world. our foundation raises funds for child and maternal health at lucile…

Health
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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9
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
10
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc

Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Herhealtheq Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyDENISON WELLNESS CENTER: $50,000 · OtherDENISON WE…AMERICARES - WEST COAST WILD FIRES: $50,000 · OtherAMERICARES…AMERICARES - HURRICANE IDA RELIEF: $50,000 · OtherAMERICARES…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE…AMERICARES - UKRAINE RELIEF EFFORTS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICARES…WILLIAMS SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherWILLIAMS S…CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATIONATTOLLO: $25,000 · OtherCHILDREN D…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $20,000 · OtherTHE UNIVER…NAVAJOLAND AREA MISSION: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $17,500 · Other+2 moreCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 · Public BenefitSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $125,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 · HealthJEFF MUSSER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthDENISON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $20,000 · Human ServicesLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesHERHEALTHEQ CORP: $50,000 · InternationalBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,300,000Other$322,500Public Benefit$245,000Health$245,000Education$150,000Human Services$65,000International$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEFF MUSSER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Clark Associates Char…Lancaster County Comm…Lynn W and Timothy W …Willis and Elsie Shen…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Clark Associates Charitable FoundationPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Lynn W and Timothy W Peters Family Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Seraph Foundation Inc 6018-01-41 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seraph Foundation Inc 6018-01-41. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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