· Private foundation
The Serra Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $479k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| McLaren Flint Foundation | $1,202,000 |
| Loyola University Chicago | $420,000 |
| Albion College | $205,000 |
| Play Right Sports Academy | $153,602 |
| Friends of Berston Field House | $60,000 |
| Michigan State University | $60,000 |
| The Ally Challenge Presented by McL | $45,000 |
| Miami University Foundation | $30,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan | $25,000 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Rochester | $25,000 |
| Northwestern University | $25,000 |
| Grand Blanc Community School | $20,000 |
| Holy Family | $20,000 |
| McLaren Northern MI Foundation | $10,000 |
| Community Partners for Affordable Housing | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% 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.
83 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- MFMCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO8× · 2017–2025 · $990k · revenue +39%
- MUMiami University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $105k
- TFTOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITYone grant, 2018 · $100k
- KGKIRK GIBSON GOLF CLASSICone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…
To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The Genesee Area Focus Fund's purpose is to receive and administer funds dedicated to improving the economy and quality of life of the people of Genesee County, Michigan. The Focus Fund provides support to publicly supported organizations…
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is The Gibson Foundation Gibson. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 192 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 ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON ↗
- Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH GENESYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Flint & Genesee Group ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAND BLANC ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Serra Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.