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Serenity Grace Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
TRANSCENDANCE YOUTH ARTS PROJECT$10,000
TRANSCENDANCE YOUTH ARTS PROJECT$10,000
AJA YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMATIO$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
KITCHENS FOR GOOD$5,000
JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH$5,000
TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION$5,000
A STEP BEYOND$5,000
WRITEGIRL$5,000
KITCHENS FOR GOOD$2,500
JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH$2,500
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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • OG
    OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +233%
  • TY
    transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project
    6× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +484%
  • 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%
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project; 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 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. 11 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

The Conrad Prebys Fou…The San Diego Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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