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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.

$29M
Granted FY2023
57
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$4.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Housing & Shelter$40MHuman Services$20MHealth$8.1MCrime & Legal$2.1MYouth Development$1.0MCivil Rights$159kPublic Benefit$104kArts & Culture$96kOther$0
02FY2023 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $14,938,913, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,705,383 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,766,470 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+13 grants · $12M
$61,135
Median grant
2
States reached
$138M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%1736 Family Crisis Center: $374k → 14%1736 Family Crisis Center: $372k → 14%1736 Family Crisis Center: $241k → 14%Sanctuary of Hope: $108k → 14%Koreatown Youth and Community Center: $267k → 14%Koreatown Youth And Community Center: $264k → 14%Koreatown Youth And Community Center: $264k → 14%Koreatown Youth and Community Center: $232k → 14%Koreatown Youth and Community Center: $232k → 14%Koreatown Youth and Community Center: $172k → 14%Koreatown Youth and Community Center: $151k → 14%Korean American Family Services Inc: $129k → 14%Korean American Family Services Inc: $124k → 14%Korean American Family Services Inc: $117k → 14%Southern California Health & Rehabilitation Program: $131k → 14%Youstar Foundation: $104k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $961k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $860k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $814k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $482k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $429k → 14%New Direction Community Programs: $296k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $370k → 14%New Direction Community Programs: $198k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $306k → 14%Sustainable Futures Project: $391k → 14%Sustainable Futures Project: $314k → 14%Sustainable Futures Project: $275k → 14%Office of Samoan Affairs: $116k → 14%Sustainable Futures Project: $265k → 14%Sustainable Futures Project: $206k → 14%La Global Care: $2.7M → 14%LA Global Care: $2.4M → 14%LA Global Care: $2.4M → 14%South Asian Network: $139k → 14%South Asian Network: $106k → 14%Inner City Law Center: $1.3M → 14%Inner City Law Center: $626k → 14%A New Direction: $356k → 14%A New Direction: $269k → 14%New Reflections Inc: $224k → 14%New Reflections Inc: $152k → 14%New Reflections Inc: $128k → 14%Honey Bears Inc: $114k → 14%Camobian Association of America: $429k → 14%Camobian Association Of America: $404k → 14%Camobian Association of America: $364k → 14%Cambodian Association of America: $288k → 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.
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.
$69M · 37 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +165% since the first grant, against +79% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
14

Total granted

$69M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+165%
+79%

Still filing today

84%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LG
    LA GLOBAL CARE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +893% · 66% of their budget
  • WL
    WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +173%
  • CF
    Connections For Women Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +458% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • ST
    SLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT TRANSITIONAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $236k · 100% of their budget
  • NC
    New Community Development Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $214k · revenue +147%
  • Central City Community Health Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $133k · revenue +79%
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
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Inc

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.

—
2
African Com Public Health Coalition

To improve personal and community health and wellness within the african community by increasing the availability of culturally relevant physical and mental health services.

Health
3
Westside Community Mental Health Center Westside Community Services Inc

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.

Health
4
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
5
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
6
The Alliance for Community Wellness Dba La Familia Counseling Services

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.

—
7
Latino Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services

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…

Health
8
Southern California Alcohol and Drug Programs Inc

Substance abuse prevention, treatment, education, and co-occurring disorders that follow or originate to the same

Health
9
All Inclusive Community Health Cent

The organization provides health care and other related services to medically underserved populations in Los Angeles County.

Health
10
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles

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…

Community Improvement
11
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
12
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 80 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
57/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA GLOBAL CARE: $7,501,069 · Human ServicesLA GLOBAL CAREWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $6,184,667 · Human ServicesWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTE…KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,632,201 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTERCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $1,485,142 · Human ServicesCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICASustainable Futures Project: $1,450,750 · Human ServicesSustainable Futures ProjectNEW REFLECTIONS INC: $1,318,691 · Human ServicesNEW REFLECTIONS INC1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $1,072,877 · Human Services+12 more: $3,007,406 · Human Services+12 moreAbundant Blessings From Above Inc: $10,272,392 · OtherAbundant Blessings From Above IncMrs Hazel's House Inc: $5,503,837 · OtherMrs Hazel's House IncVann Heflin Holdings: $1,976,641 · OtherVann Heflin HoldingsTESTIMONIAL COMMUNITY LOVE CENTER: $1,817,451 · OtherTESTIMONIAL COMMUNITY LOVE CENTERCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $1,443,864 · OtherCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER+30 more: $2,672,881 · Other+30 moreConnections For Women Inc: $5,826,184 · Housing & ShelterConnections For…MOTORCYCLE RIDERS FOR HOMELESS PAROLEES: $2,488,576 · Housing & ShelterMOTORCYCLE RIDE…CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $601,756 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR THE …LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $389,893 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $454,949 · Housing & ShelterSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES: $2,694,204 · HealthSHIELDS FOR F…PACIFIC ASIAN COUNSELING SERVICES: $2,431,716 · HealthPACIFIC ASIAN…FIRST TO SERVE INC: $1,498,596 · HealthFIRST TO SERV…WALL-LAS MEMORIAS PROJECT: $1,131,205 · HealthWALL-LAS MEMO…TARZANA TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $522,500 · HealthTARZANA TREAT…+6 more: $556,991 · Health+6 more1979 LEGACY CORP: $1,675,644 · Community ImprovementHOME AT LAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,243,198 · Community Improvement+2 more: $51,933 · Community ImprovementFAIR OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE INC: $2,089,006 · Crime & LegalWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $107,375 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $13,559 · Crime & LegalHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $955,001 · Youth Development
Human Services$23,652,803Other$23,687,066Housing & Shelter$9,761,358Health$8,835,212Community Improvement$2,970,775Crime & Legal$2,209,940Youth Development$955,001

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA GLOBAL CARE: $7,501,069 over 5y, 66% of budgetWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $6,184,667 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetConnections For Women Inc: $5,826,184 over 8y, 100% of budgetSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES: $2,694,204 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetMOTORCYCLE RIDERS FOR HOMELESS PAROLEES: $2,488,576 over 8y, 98% of budgetPACIFIC ASIAN COUNSELING SERVICES: $2,431,716 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetFAIR OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE INC: $2,089,006 over 8y, 48% of budgetTESTIMONIAL COMMUNITY LOVE CENTER: $1,817,451 over 9y, 6.5% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP: $1,675,644 over 5y, 94% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,632,201 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetFIRST TO SERVE INC: $1,498,596 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $1,485,142 over 6y, 15% of budgetSustainable Futures Project: $1,450,750 over 7y, 84% of budgetCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $1,443,864 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetNEW REFLECTIONS INC: $1,318,691 over 8y, 74% of budgetHOME AT LAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,243,198 over 7y, 17% of budgetWALL-LAS MEMORIAS PROJECT: $1,131,205 over 6y, 17% of budget1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $1,072,877 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $955,001 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INC: $638,507 over 9y, 25% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $629,307 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $601,756 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetSanctuary of Hope: $564,407 over 9y, 25% of budgetTARZANA TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $522,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNew Direction Community Programs: $493,968 over 2y, 67% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS: $438,181 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSEARCH TO INVOLVE PILIPINO AMERICANS: $397,562 over 9y, 23% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $389,893 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH & REHABILITATION PROGRAM: $263,131 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $239,760 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT TRANSITIONAL SERVICES INC: $235,835 over 1y, 100% of budgetNew Community Development Corporation: $213,614 over 1y, 14% of budgetOFFICE OF SAMOAN AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA INC: $204,155 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $149,176 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Community Health Center Inc: $132,566 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $107,375 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetINLAND CHINESE AMERICAN ALLIANCE: $104,178 over 3y, 64% of budgetYOUSTAR FOUNDATION: $103,530 over 3y, 69% of budgetPERRIS VALLEY FILIPINO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $79,873 over 3y, 44% of budgetChampions of Caring Connections Inc: $71,598 over 5y, 22% of budgetJWCH INSTITUTE INC: $69,060 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALIANZA TRANSLATINX: $56,347 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $54,973 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSHANTI ORANGE COUNTY: $53,249 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFathers and Mothers Who Care: $46,227 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $43,330 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $40,541 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS Services Foundation Orange County: $37,826 over 3y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Shelter Partnership I…United Way IncCalifornia Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Weingart FoundationLos Angeles Regional …Baby2babyThe Ralph M Parsons F…The California Endowm…The Ahmanson Foundati…The California Wellne…The Annenberg Foundat…
Shelter Partnership IncCA55.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Friends Research Institute Inc: 63% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report 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.

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 80 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. 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 $43M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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