California · Nonprofit
Serenity Inc Foster Care
Serenity Inc Foster Care (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,663 to it, the largest being IN-N-OUT BURGERS FOUNDATION ($9,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $0
What Serenity Inc Foster Care does
Mission
The mission of Serenity is to break the cycle of child abuse through prevention and early intervention services for children and their families by providing quality foster home, individual and group counseling services and adoptions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Serenity is a licensed foster family agency which recruits, trains and certifies quality foster families to care for foster children birthto age 18. Master's level social work staff supervise each certified home,develop needs and services plan for each child, make regularlyscheduled and surprise home visits and provide referrals within Serenity's programs and to the community for additional resources. Additionally, medically fragile infants requiring specialized in-home care are placed in certified homes of parents specifically trained to meet their needs.
$131,260 spentof which $74,985 as grants94% of program spendingSerenity's adoption services include permanent plannning for children who are relinquished or otherwise free for placement through our "adoptions through foster care" program. Serenity is able to place children in a stable home enviroment which could ultimately be their "forever" home. This program evaluates and approves adoptive homes, recruits appropriate adoptive families and provides post adoption services.
$9,125 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $140,385.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $706k to $0 (−100%).
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 95% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 88% · 2022 88% · 2023 96% · 2024 95% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Dan Maydeck
CEO (start 1/24)
Board chair
Hon Judge Robert A Dukes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Foster Care’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 Foster Care leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Serenity Inc Foster Care.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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
100% of Serenity Inc Foster Care's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Serenity Inc Foster Care
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
35% 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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Haynes Family of Programs · exempt
- The David and Margaret Home Inc · exempt
- Joan Macy School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Serenity Inc Foster Care: 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 Foster Care?
- Serenity Inc Foster Care (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,663 to it, the largest being IN-N-OUT BURGERS FOUNDATION ($9,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Serenity Inc Foster Care have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $16,663 in grants to Serenity Inc Foster Care, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Serenity Inc Foster Care?
- IN-N-OUT BURGERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Serenity Inc Foster Care 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 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