Michigan · Private foundation
The Serra Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,202,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Serra 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; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $2.2M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $769k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $407k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $271k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $423k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $361k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $644k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $615k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McLaren Flint Foundation | $1,238,000 | 9 | 39% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $990,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $790,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Miami University Foundation | $230,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Play Right Sports Academy Inc | $170,940 | 6 | 41% |
| Northwestern University | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Gibson Foundation Gibson | $90,000 | 5 | 95% |
| Orchards Children's Services Inc | $77,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Flint Institute of Music | $71,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Serra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Ruth Mott Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Whiting Foundation · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Tournaments for Charity
How this is measured
About The Serra Foundation
- How much does The Serra Foundation give?
- The Serra Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $2,393,177 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Serra Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Health (11%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are The Serra Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: McLaren Flint Foundation ($1.2M), Loyola University of Chicago ($990k), Michigan State University ($790k).
- Does The Serra Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Serra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Serra Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Flint, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Serra Foundation based?
- The Serra Foundation is based in MI.
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