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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$640k
Largest
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 2024.

Crime & Legal$7.3MHuman Services$3.5MHealth$1.6MReligion$513kHousing & Shelter$192kYouth Development$152kRecreation & Sports$70kEducation$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $595k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $402k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$16,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FREE ON THE OUTSIDE$28,000
KLEEN STREET INC - WA$28,000
TESTIMONY GOSPEL BRAND MINISTRIES INC$25,625
BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$25,000
POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES INC$24,000
CIRCLES OF SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY FRESNO INC$24,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GENERATE HOPE: $30k → 11%RESTORATION RANCH TEXAS TX: $6k → 10%THE OASIS CENTER: $7k → 14%EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE (TUMI IN TX): $238k → 16%WINGS OF REFUGE: $10k → 17%LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $100k → 14%BELOVED ATLANTA: $25k → 13%SCARLET ROAD: $10k → 10%TRUE BEGINNINGS: $25k → 13%GENERATE HOPE: $30k → 11%THE OASIS CENTER: $7k → 14%EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE (TUMI IN TX): $208k → 16%LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $50k → 14%BELOVED ATLANTA: $25k → 13%SCARLET ROAD: $10k → 10%TRUE BEGINNINGS: $16k → 13%GENERATE HOPE: $24k → 11%TWO WINGS: $50k → 14%EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE (TUMI IN TX): $150k → 16%LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $48k → 14%SCARLET ROAD: $8k → 10%NEW BEGINNINGS: $40k → 8%QUALIFIED (FORMERLY TWO WINGSSILVER LINING LEGACY): $40k → 14%EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE (TUMI IN TX): $60k → 16%LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS: $30k → 8%EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE (TUMI IN TX): $59k → 16%NEW BEGINNINGS: $20k → 8%QUALIFIED (FORMERLY TWO WINGSSILVER LINING LEGACY): $28k → 14%MARJOREE MASON: $50k → 19%NEW BEGINNINGS: $8k → 8%MARJAREE MASON: $40k → 19%MARJAREE MASON: $15k → 19%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $50k → 12%KHERUT: $10k → 10%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $50k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $40k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $28k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $25k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $25k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $20k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $20k → 14%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $25k → 14%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $25k → 14%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $24k → 14%CHERISHED HIGH DESERT INC: $10k → 14%CHERISHED HIGH DESERT INC: $10k → 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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 75 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
24

Total granted

$13M
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalReligionHealthHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • MO
    MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +181%
  • PF
    PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +82%
  • EL
    EPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $715k · revenue +69% · 89% of their budget

Funded once

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +38%
  • WI
    WORLD IMPACT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $56k
  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -17%
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
Remnant Ministries Inc

Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society

Religion
2
Brookshire New Birth Ministries

To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction

Human Services
3
His House Outreach Ministries Inc Dba She Brews Coffee & Transition Prog

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

—
5
Philippians 3 13 Ministries

Transitional living for recovered addicts.

Health
6
Lifehouse Ministries Inc
Housing & Shelter
7
Recoverychick

religious

Human Services
8
Rubies Womens Group Inc

House women with trauma, addiction

Religion
9
Beauty for Ashes Women's Home Inc

Drug addiction rehabilitation program

Health
10
House of Refuge Inc

Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens

Religion
11
Bryant Homes Inc

Transitional Living Services for ex-offe

—
12
A New Beginning for Women and Children

We are a ministry that serves women and children who are homeless, who need accountability for sober living or who are recovering from domestic violencwe

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Through Education; 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.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 105 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/81
Grantees still filing
48/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $3,200,000 · HealthMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATIONTEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC: $285,000 · HealthTEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INCREBOOT RECOVERY INC: $183,000 · Health+9 more: $793,100 · Health+9 morePRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $2,920,450 · Crime & LegalPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIESROOT & REBOUND: $179,000 · Crime & LegalFree On The Outside: $168,000 · Crime & Legal+13 more: $470,000 · Crime & Legal+13 moreEPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE: $714,540 · Human ServicesEPIPHANY LIFE CH…LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $238,000 · Human ServicesLIFELINE GLOBAL …SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $140,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PRO…SILVER LINING LEGACY: $118,000 · Human ServicesSILVER LINING LE…FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $118,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR W…MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesMARJAREE MASON C…NEW BEGINNINGS GOLD COUNTRY: $98,000 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INC: $84,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $74,000 · Human Services+9 more: $218,200 · Human Services+9 moreTRAINING CENTER EPHESIANS 4 11 16: $412,000 · OtherTRAINING CENTER …ONE IN CHRIST MINISTRIES: $170,000 · OtherONE IN CHRIST MI…Kleen Streets Inc: $168,000 · OtherKleen Streets In…POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $130,000 · OtherPOWERHOUSE MINIS…WAVES PROJECT INC: $114,000 · OtherWAVES PROJECT IN…WAY WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $80,000 · Other+33 more: $849,905 · Other+33 moreNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $160,500 · ReligionURBAN MINISTRY INSTITUTE OF TOPEKA: $136,500 · ReligionNortheast of the Well: $90,000 · ReligionGOD BEHIND BARS INC: $85,600 · ReligionXTREME SOULUTIONS INC: $85,000 · ReligionARUKAH: $83,000 · ReligionLAST MINISTRY INC: $75,000 · ReligionTHE GOD OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $70,000 · ReligionCompletion Global Inc: $66,000 · ReligionFIRM FOUNDATION MINISTRIES INC: $48,000 · ReligionTestimony Gospel Brand Ministries: $35,625 · Religion+2 more: $26,000 · ReligionFreedom Through Education: $164,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $44,000 · EducationBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterHIS HOUSE FOR HER INC: $32,000 · Housing & ShelterEMILY'S PLACE INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$4,461,100Crime & Legal$3,737,450Human Services$1,907,740Other$1,923,905Religion$961,225Education$258,000Housing & Shelter$167,000

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 budgetMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $3,200,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $2,920,450 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetEPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE: $714,540 over 6y, 89% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC: $285,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $238,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetREBOOT RECOVERY INC: $183,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetROOT & REBOUND: $179,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFree On The Outside: $168,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetFreedom Through Education: $164,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $160,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $140,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN MINISTRY INSTITUTE OF TOPEKA: $136,500 over 6y, 45% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $136,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGABES HOMES: $135,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetSILVER LINING LEGACY: $118,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $118,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetRebirth Homes Inc: $118,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetWAVES PROJECT INC: $114,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetNEW LIFE DREAM CENTER: $108,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Justice Center: $90,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast of the Well: $90,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetThe Bridge Restoration Ministry: $86,100 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetXTREME SOULUTIONS INC: $85,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $84,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetARUKAH: $83,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetPATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC: $82,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLAST MINISTRY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $74,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE GOD OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $70,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTURN90: $66,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCompletion Global Inc: $66,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetPRISONERS FOR CHRIST OUTREACH MINIS: $60,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCONVERSE HOPE CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $56,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: $52,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBELOVED ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRM FOUNDATION MINISTRIES INC: $48,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $44,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTreasures Ministries: $40,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION SOLANO RESCUE MISSION: $36,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLILY HAVEN: $36,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTestimony Gospel Brand Ministries: $35,625 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetWelcome Home Sis: $34,000 over 5y, 20% 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 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 SILVER LINING LEGACY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS ↗
  • 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 COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Northeast of the Well ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Slave 2 Nothing FoundationCA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 55%
  • Community Solutions Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Free On the Outside: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.3M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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