Texas · Nonprofit
SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC
SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC (Texas) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,470,859 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($5,288,754). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Ser-Jobs for Progress of the Texas Gulf Coast Inc does
Mission
To transform the lives of individuals through education, skill-based training, employment, and long-term financial stability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Adults - serjobs provides employment placement, career coaching, financial coaching, job readiness training, and occupational training services to adults. Participants receive support with basic employment skills, including resume writing, computer literacy, job search preparation, interviewing, professional workplace expectations, and career assessment. Services may include occupational training in areas such as construction, welding, forklift, manufacturing, cdl, customer service, banking, and office administration. Serjobs also provides job placement assistance and supportive services or referrals to help address barriers such as transportation, childcare, food insecurity, housing, and other needs that may impact employment.
$2,449,218 spentof which $1,021,712 as grants33% of program spendingYouth - serjobs provides youth services that include career coaching, financial coaching, ged preparation and attainment support, testing services, occupational skills training, access to scholarships, transportation assistance, work supports, paid internships, public benefits access, job readiness training, job placement assistance, and mentoring.
$4,345,425 spent59% of program spendingOther program services - other program services include job readiness training, occupational skills training, basic education preparation, financial coaching, supportive services, transportation assistance to worksites and training classes, and specialized services for veterans, opportunity youth, justice-involved individuals, underserved populations, and financially distressed communities.
$535,405 spent$12,250 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,330,048.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $19M (+83%).
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: 2018 63% · 2019 77% · 2020 41% · 2021 68% · 2022 68% · 2023 54% · 2024 356%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
610% of SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.8M.
10 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 funders by total. 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 OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 42% · 2019 30% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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 OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.9M on record.
- Department of Labor$17.9M
- Department of Commerce$5.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ser-Community Development Corp · exempt
- Ser Qalicb · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC?
- SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC (Texas) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,470,859 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($5,288,754). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $16,470,859 in grants to SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $5,288,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 66 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