Oregon · Nonprofit
SERENDIPITY CENTER INC
SERENDIPITY CENTER INC (Oregon) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,909,826 to it, the largest being HEATHERINGTON FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AND EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE ($525,964). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Serendipity Center Inc does
Mission
To provide the best environment for our students to heal and become educated, productive community members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Serendipity center is a private, nonprofit therapeutic school dedicated to students whose complex needs prevent attendance in public school settings. In every school district in this region, there are students facing challenges that make successful participation in public school impossible. Without effective help and the chance to start over, these children can become disruptive, unsafe, and highly discouraged about their futures. It is our mission to provide the best environment for students to heal and become educated, productive community members. Continued on schedule o.the four pillar model developed at serendipity integrates education, mental health supports, transition readiness, and wellness into all school days. 92 students referred by 20 regional school districts were served by serendipity over the course of 2024-2025. Accomplishments from the 2024-2025 school year included the following:* among those surveyed, 86% made progress on reading goals, 93% made progress on writing goals, and 86% made progress on math goals* 93% of students improved their overall grades throughout the year, showing steady academic advancement. * we served over 20,000 organic meals made from…
$6,222,008 spent$6,034,601 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,222,008.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $6.8M to $6.1M (−10%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 31% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of SERENDIPITY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Matthew Berryessa
Executive director
Board chair
Kristin Bauer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $51k → $764k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SERENDIPITY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
SERENDIPITY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
31% 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 SERENDIPITY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 38% · 2019 47% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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
43% of SERENDIPITY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
88% of SERENDIPITY CENTER INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SERENDIPITY CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SERENDIPITY CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $799k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$717k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$57k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$25k
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 SERENDIPITY CENTER 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERENDIPITY CENTER INC: 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 SERENDIPITY CENTER INC?
- SERENDIPITY CENTER INC (Oregon) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,909,826 to it, the largest being HEATHERINGTON FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AND EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE ($525,964). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERENDIPITY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,909,826 in grants to SERENDIPITY CENTER INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERENDIPITY CENTER INC?
- HEATHERINGTON FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AND EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE is the largest funder on record, with $525,964 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERENDIPITY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 32 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