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The Serio Foundation Dominic Serio Trustee

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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$18kHuman Services$4kEducation$2kInternational$2kReligion$1kFood & Nutrition$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$250Recreation & Sports$50Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
7
States reached
$54k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$720
BOYS TOWN$270
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$250
MERCY SHIPS$200
AMERICA NEEDS FATIMA$200
NORTHWELL HOSPITAL$100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$100
OPERATION SMILE$100
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $450 → 12%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $25 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $420 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $400 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $270 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $248 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $212 → 12%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

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
PA
CT
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 25 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
22

Total granted

$28k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+0%

Still filing today

68%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +125%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $404
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $305
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300 · revenue +3%
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
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
7
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
11
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

25 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. 25 of the 48 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMILE TRAIN INC: $2,600 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $2,375 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCHDISABLED VETERANS FOUNDATION: $1,163 · OtherDISABLED VETERANS FOUNDATIONST FRANCIS HOSPITAL & HEART CENTER: $950 · OtherST FRANCIS HOSPITAL & HEART CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $650 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JUDE: $425 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $404 · Other+22 more: $2,639 · Other+22 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,550 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL IN…ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,735 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,400 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $875 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc+4 more: $475 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,400 · InternationalMEDECINS S…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $600 · InternationalFEED THE C…Mercy Ships International: $300 · InternationalMercy Ship…OPERATION SMILE INC: $200 · InternationalOPERATION …Save The Children Federation Inc: $200 · InternationalSave The C…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,320 · EducationFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,250 · Human Services+1 more: $25 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $600 · ReligionFeeding America: $550 · Food & Nutrition
Other$11,206Health$10,535International$2,700Education$2,320Human Services$2,275Religion$600Food & Nutrition$550

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,735 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,320 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $875 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Serio Foundation Dominic Serio Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Serio Foundation Dominic Serio Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 48 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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