· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| 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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +181%
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +82%
- ELEPIPHANY LIFE CHANGE6× · 2020–2025 · $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%
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.
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.
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.
religious
House women with trauma, addiction
Drug addiction rehabilitation program
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
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
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- Community Solutions Inc: 55% of income from government
- Free On the Outside: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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