· Public charity
Serving USA Inc Fka Serving California
Serving usa is a faith based, 501(c)(3) organization committed to providing grace and redemption through christ to prisoners, ex-prisoners, women in recovery from human trafficking and domestic violence and military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress and physical handicaps.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $595k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $402k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION | $640,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP (TUMI) | $420,000 |
| EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE (TUMI IN TX) | $238,000 |
| REBOOT RECOVERY | $102,000 |
| GOD BEHIND BARS | $62,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO FREEDOM INC | $44,000 |
| LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| PRISONERS FOR CHRIST | $36,000 |
| THE URBAN MINISTRY INSTITUTE OF TOPEKA | $32,000 |
| KLEEN STREET INC - WA | $28,000 |
| FREE ON THE OUTSIDE | $28,000 |
| TESTIMONY GOSPEL BRAND MINISTRIES INC | $25,625 |
| BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $25,000 |
| FREEDOM THROUGH EDUCATION CAMPUS | $24,000 |
| POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES INC | $24,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- MOMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +181%
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +82%
- ELEPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE5× · 2020–2024 · $715k · revenue +69% · 89% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +38%
- WIWORLD IMPACT INCone grant, 2017 · $56k
- DVDEFY VENTURES INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -17%
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.
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction
We equip and empower women transitioning out of incarceration by providing stable employment and housing, life skills, and mentors to walk alongside them. Through this, we inspire hope, disrupt cycles of incarceration, and restore families.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Transitional living for recovered addicts.
House women with trauma, addiction
religious
Drug addiction rehabilitation program
Provide second change housing for homeless.
Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens
Transitional Living Services for ex-offe
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Through Education and the most unlike its peers is Waves Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 105 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 MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds REBOOT RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT & REBOUND ↗
- Who funds Free On The Outside ↗
- Who funds Freedom Through Education ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRY INSTITUTE OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GABES HOMES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING LEGACY ↗
- Who funds Rebirth Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds WAVES PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS GOLD COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Community Justice Center ↗
- Who funds Northeast of the Well ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge Restoration Ministry ↗
- Who funds GOD BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds XTREME SOULUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATEHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ARUKAH ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAST MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOD OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TURN90 ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Slave 2 Nothing Foundation · A New Way of Life Reentry Project · Bob Barker Foundation Inc · Kingdom Causes Inc City Net Bedrock Creek · Mike and Linda Van Daele Family Foundation · Rescue- Freedom International · The California Endowment · Women's Foundation of California · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Servant Foundation · Weingart Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
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 Serving USA Inc Fka Serving California 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.
- Community Solutions Inc — 55% of income from government
- Free On the Outside — 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.
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