California · Nonprofit
SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley
SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,563,429 to it, the largest being SER Jobs Progress National Inc ($22,421,018). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley does
Mission
To provide education, training, job placement and low income housing to the citizens of the State of California.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided job training and found job placements for older workers. In addition, provided housing to low income and retired farmworker families and education to dislocated students.
$9,785,497 spent$10,385,318 earned by the program84% of program spendingProvided high school equivalency education to help students graduate.
$952,432 spent$952,432 earned by the program8% of program spendingProvided low income housing to the residents of California.
$913,240 spent$1,071,242 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,651,169.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $9.2M (−50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 48% · 2020 50% · 2021 69% · 2022 78% · 2023 76% · 2024 90% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jesus Pardon
President & CEO
Board chair
Rebecca Mendibles
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $959k → $3.3M.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 60% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 53% · 2022 52% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley has grown faster than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Royal Heights LLC · disregarded
- San Diego County SER Jobs for Progress · exempt
- SER Holdings Inc · exempt
- SER Holdings II Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley?
- SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,563,429 to it, the largest being SER Jobs Progress National Inc ($22,421,018). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $32,563,429 in grants to SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley?
- SER Jobs Progress National Inc is the largest funder on record, with $22,421,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SER-Jobs for Progress Inc San Joaquin Valley find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing