Virginia · Nonprofit
SERENITY INC
SERENITY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,483 to it, the largest being THE CAMERON FOUNDATION ($322,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $477k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $342k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Serenity Inc does
Mission
Serenity is dedicated to reducing the transmission of hiv by providing comprehensive support services, education, advocacy and referrals in a safe setting to those infected and affected by hiv.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided non-financial support and prevention education services to 150 plus people living with hiv aids and the at risk population to reduce the spread of hiv
$437,952 spent95% of program spendingProvided supportive services including case management, transportation, and emergency financila assistance to people living with hiv aids
$4,000 spent1% of program spendingHousing assistance. Serenity facilitates housing assistance that includes up to 90 days rental/utilities assistance for persons recently released from jail or hospitals. The first month rent and short term rental and utilities assistance is also provided. The housing program is a critical part of the effort to assist clients stabilization.
$17,128 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $459,080.
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 2021 to 2022, from $48k to $224k (+367%).
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 94% · 2018 80% · 2019 81% · 2020 82% · 2021 87% · 2022 98% · 2023 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SERENITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Rosa Johnson-Tuma
Executive director
Board chair
Joe Satterwhite
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $35k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SERENITY INC’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
SERENITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of SERENITY INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83 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
SERENITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SERENITY 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERENITY 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 SERENITY INC?
- SERENITY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,483 to it, the largest being THE CAMERON FOUNDATION ($322,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERENITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $342,483 in grants to SERENITY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERENITY INC?
- THE CAMERON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $322,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERENITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 4 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