· Private foundation
The Serenbetz Family Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC | $215,000 |
| REACH PREP INC | $150,000 |
| HORIZONS STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $120,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $110,000 |
| FIRST GRADUATE | $110,000 |
| ST VINCENTS SERVICES INC | $80,000 |
| THE CARVER INC | $75,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC | $75,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $70,000 |
| COTTEY COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC | $40,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC | $35,000 |
| TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUT | $5,000 |
| HOE MINISTRIES INC | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 11 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WSWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +34%
- RPREACH PREP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $811k · revenue +67%
- HAHARLEM ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $597k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +106%
- HMHOE MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +29%
- DLDEERFOOT LODGEone grant, 2024 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Mott haven academy charter school empowers children in an educational environment that addresses and reduces the barriers to academic success through the integration of family support services with a rigorous college preparatory academic…
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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.
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HOE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPS & CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ↗
- Who funds LYCEE FRANCAIS DE SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Serenbetz Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% 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.