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Serenity Grace Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$101kPhilanthropy$85kYouth Development$80kFood & Nutrition$61kArts & Culture$19k
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k13 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTOSHA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$82,168
AJA YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMATIO$10,000
TRANSCENDANCE YOUTH ARTS PROJECT$10,000
TRANSCENDANCE YOUTH ARTS PROJECT$10,000
OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT$10,000
OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT$8,000
AJA YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMATIO$5,000
TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION$5,000
TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION$5,000
WRITEGIRL$5,000
A STEP BEYOND$5,000
JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH$5,000
KITCHENS FOR GOOD$5,000
KITCHENS FOR GOOD$2,500
A STEP BEYOND$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $10k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $8k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $8k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $7k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $7k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $7k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $7k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENT: $280 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$244k · 10 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$244k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Youth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • OG
    OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +233%
  • TY
    transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project
    6× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +544%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Sanctuaries
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • IC
    IPODERACS CHILDREN FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -83%
  • CP
    CREATE PEACE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +88%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
2
Plant to Plate Internship Program

The Plant to Plate Internship Program mentors, empowers, and prepares high school students to enhance their skills and advance their employment opportunities through training in organic gardening and the culinary arts.

Youth Development
3
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
4
Culinary Arts Kids Eat

To educate youth on the importance of a healthy lifestyle.

Youth Development
5
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
6
David's Harp Foundation

To inspire, educate, and empower "opportunity youth", to achieve academic success through music education, sound engineering, and multimedia production.

Youth Development
7
Artronika

ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…

8
Collective Impact

At Collective Impact, our mission to empower underserved communities is realized through a range of programs that support youth, young adults and families in overcoming systemic barriers. Our core initiatives include Magic Zone, providing…

Youth Development
9
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
10
Maria Torres Emerging Artists Foundation Inc

Rigorous, interdisciplinary educational and mentoring program in the performing arts empowering pre-teens and young adults from underserved, multi-ethnic communities to achieve their goals as professionals in the entertainment industry. We…

Arts & Culture
11
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…

Public Benefit
12
Instituto Gaspar Yanga

Instituto Gaspar Yanga IGY provides holistic tools for women teaching artists youth and cultural workers working with BIPOC communities to embody healing justice and ecojustice pedagogies in action Our trauma-informed and healing-centered…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project and the most unlike its peers is Ipoderacs Children Fund. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTOSHA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $82,168 · OtherSANTOSHA CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDAJA YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMATIO — $48,500 · OtherAJA YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMATIOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $17,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOWRITEGIRL — $10,000 · OtherWRITEGIRLTHE COLLECTIVE AT THE SANCTUARIES — $10,000 · OtherTHE COLLECTIVE AT THE SANCTUARIESKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $7,500 · OtherThe Sanctuaries — $7,000 · OtherOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC — $53,780 · Human ServicesOLIVEWOODS GARDEN…transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project — $51,500 · EducationtranscenDANCE Yo…SEAN O'SHEA FOUNDATION — $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEAN O'SHE…JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TI…TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $12,500 · PhilanthropyIPODERACS CHILDREN FUND — $2,500 · PhilanthropyA Step Beyond — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCREATE PEACE PROJECT — $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$182,168Human Services$53,780Education$51,500Youth Development$31,000Philanthropy$15,000Arts & Culture$11,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC — $53,780 over 6y, 1.4% of budgettranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project — $51,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSEAN O'SHEA FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $12,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetA Step Beyond — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIPODERACS CHILDREN FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCREATE PEACE PROJECT — $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Serenity Grace 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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