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The Seravalli 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.

$299k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$124,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$250k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Seravalli Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$299k24%
FY202418$311k50%
FY202312$337k33%
FY202217$245k53%
FY202112$220k50%
FY202011$206k64%
FY201913$152k23%
FY201819$106k53%
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.1MEducation$328kReligion$245kHealth$149kHuman Services$57kYouth Development$22kFood & Nutrition$16kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
DE
AZ
HI
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($653k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Seravalli Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $1,209,713 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaring for Friends: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends for Heroes Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetFight Like Frank Foundation: $13,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetThe Center for Loss and Bereavement: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Crossing Council Boy Scouts of America: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringside Chestnut Hill Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFounding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Foundations Charter School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wrestling Hall of Fame: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe McKeown Foundation Co Joseph McKeown: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMark Dombroski Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCovenant House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Community Center for Behavioral Health: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChuck Cassidy Scholarship Fund: $300 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavids Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMovember Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation: $100 over 1y, 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 27.

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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.

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · Aetna Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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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Find your warmest path to The Seravalli Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Seravalli Foundation

How much does The Seravalli Foundation give?
The Seravalli Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $299,129 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Seravalli Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (54%), Education (16%), Religion (12%).
Who are The Seravalli Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Give Kids the World Inc ($1.2M), Travis Manion Foundation ($28k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($22k).
Does The Seravalli Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Seravalli 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 Seravalli Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Chubb Charitable Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
Where is The Seravalli Foundation based?
The Seravalli Foundation is based in PA.

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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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