· Public charity
Special Service for Groups Inc
Special Service for Groups, ("SSG"), is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing community-based solutions to the social and economic issues facing those in the greatest need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 57 grants below total $14,938,913 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,705,383 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,766,470 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+13 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Abundant Blessings From Above Inc | $4,366,619 |
| La Global Care | $2,713,290 |
| Connections For Women | $1,303,350 |
| Motorcycle Rider For Homeless Parolees | $630,438 |
| Tarzana Treatment Centers | $522,500 |
| Watts Labor Community Action Committee | $428,574 |
| Camobian Association Of America | $404,051 |
| Little Tokyo Service Center Dba Ltsc Little Tokyo | $389,893 |
| Fair Opportunity For Change | $355,663 |
| Sustainable Futures Project | $313,929 |
| Testimonial Community Love Center | $304,857 |
| Koreatown Youth And Community Center | $264,048 |
| Koreatown Youth And Community Center | $264,048 |
| Pacific Asian Counseling Services | $242,530 |
| Chinatown Service Center | $221,611 |
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 (FY17–23, $23.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +165% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- LGLA GLOBAL CARE5× · 2021–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +893% · 66% of their budget
- WLWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +173%
- CFConnections For Women Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +458% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- STSLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT TRANSITIONAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $236k · 100% of their budget
- NCNew Community Development Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $214k · revenue +147%
Central City Community Health Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $133k · revenue +79%
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.
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.
To improve personal and community health and wellness within the african community by increasing the availability of culturally relevant physical and mental health services.
The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.
Mental health services advocacy
La Familia Counseling Service is an inclusive Latino community-based, multi-cultural organization committed to strengthening the emotional wellness of individuals and the preservation of families.
The Latino Commission provides a multitude of services throughout the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Tulare. The Organization currently employs twelve programs eight for adults, and four for youth and transitional age youth…
Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence
Substance abuse prevention, treatment, education, and co-occurring disorders that follow or originate to the same
The organization provides health care and other related services to medically underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
Lgbtq social services
Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.
To foster interest among its community members in social community economic and environmental conditions and growth. and to assist in the development of affordable housing in southern california by providing housing development and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Direction Community Programs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 80 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 LA GLOBAL CARE ↗
- Who funds WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Connections For Women Inc ↗
- Who funds SHIELDS FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds MOTORCYCLE RIDERS FOR HOMELESS PAROLEES ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ASIAN COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAIR OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds TESTIMONIAL COMMUNITY LOVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds 1979 LEGACY CORP ↗
- Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST TO SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Futures Project ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW REFLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOME AT LAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds WALL-LAS MEMORIAS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds 1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary of Hope ↗
- Who funds TARZANA TREATMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds New Direction Community Programs ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SEARCH TO INVOLVE PILIPINO AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH & REHABILITATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT TRANSITIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds New Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF SAMOAN AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds Central City Community Health Center Inc ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shelter Partnership Inc · United Way Inc · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · Baby2baby · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation
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 Special Service for Groups Inc 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.
- Friends Research Institute Inc — 63% 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.