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Serfco 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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$188kEducation$81kHuman Services$56kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$15kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$411k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mount Hermon Baptist Church$10,350
UC-Cumberland College$7,200
Trinity Baptist Church$5,600
Pilot Baptist Church$2,300
Summerfield Cemetery Trust$2,000
Salvation Army$1,800
FeedmoreMeals on Wheels$1,800
Good Samaritan Ministries$1,800
Summerfield United Methodist Church$1,600
Barton College$1,200
Bon Secours Richmond Health Care$1,000
Individual grant recipient$600
Wounded Warrior Project$400
YMCA of Greater Richmond$250
America Cancer Society$220
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $600 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $2k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $600 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $2k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $600 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $2k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $600 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $2k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $600 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $2k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $300 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $1k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $250 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $1k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $200 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $1k → 22%YMCA of Greater Richmond: $150 → 7%Good Samaritan Ministries: $980 → 22%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $400 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
OH
MO
KY
VA
NC
DC
FL
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$361k · 27 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
6

Total granted

$361k
$2k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • BC
    BARTON COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +40%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +88%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • MC
    Mayo Clinic
    one grant, 2021 · $400
  • EB
    Edenton Baptist Church
    one grant, 2017 · $400
  • FB
    First Baptist Church of Mayodan
    one grant, 2021 · $200
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
11
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769); the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT HERMON BAPTIST CHURCH: $97,550 · OtherMOUNT HERMON BAPTIST CHURCHUC-Cumberland College: $62,600 · OtherUC-Cumberland CollegeTrinity Baptist Church: $45,800 · OtherTrinity Baptist ChurchPilot Baptist Church: $23,150 · OtherPilot Baptist ChurchSummerfield United Methodist Church: $17,950 · OtherSummerfield United Methodist ChurchSalvation Army: $17,538 · OtherSalvation ArmySummerfield Cemetery Trust: $14,350 · OtherFeedmoreMeals on Wheels: $11,950 · Other+17 more: $23,485 · Other+17 moreGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $14,030 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $3,900 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,600 · Human ServicesBARTON COLLEGE: $18,600 · EducationChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $4,400 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,410 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $1,200 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,050 · HealthRBC MINISTRIES: $1,360 · Religion
Other$314,373Human Services$21,530Education$18,600Health$8,060Religion$1,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARTON COLLEGE: $18,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $14,030 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $4,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $3,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $1,360 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,050 over 9y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Serfco Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serfco Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–15%
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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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