· Private foundation
A and J Serenity Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOOR | $50,000 |
| THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING | $50,000 |
| RUTH'S RUFUGE | $50,000 |
| NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA | $50,000 |
| CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $40,000 |
| GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITY PANTRY | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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; $13k 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
- CFCARE FOR THE HOMELESS6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +49%
- TDTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +36%
- MCMercy Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- WCWOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
See schedule onontraditional employment for women (new) prepares, trains, and places women in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future.
To provide workforce development and other programs to empower immigrant women to obtain meaningful employment or pursue higher education in nyc. to offer a safe, inclusive space where immigrant women can build community and share their…
Leap empowers low and moderate income people by helping them gain access to living-wage employment opportunities and career paths. we seek to develop programs that counter prevailing market inequalities and contribute to a broader movement…
Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
At city living ny, our mission is to empower youth aging out of foster care to successfully transition into adulthood. we start by providing clients with urgently needed items such as dishes and bedding to turn their apartment into a home.…
Please see schedule o for full mission statement
To provide safe housing, critical services, and ground-breaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundling and the most unlike its peers is New Neighbors Partnership Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 CARE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Rights Initiative ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RUTH'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RED BULL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
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: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 A and J Serenity Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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