Texas · Nonprofit
Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal
Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,783 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($339,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $519k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal does
Mission
Serenity Retreat exists to equip all generations in a prayer process that allows for a transformational encounter with God.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Retreat Center - Serenity's Retreat Center in Bellville, TX offers rest and respite for individuals, groups, pastors, leaders and missionaries. Overnight Personal Healing Retreats are Serenity Retreat's most popular type of retreat, during which an individual receives two sessions of Transformation Prayer Ministry (TPM) and is nourished both spiritually and physically. Group Retreats are offered to Christian organizations with similar values to host programs of their own in a peaceful setting outside of the city. Pastoral and Missionary Respites are offered to those in need at a discounted rate to help those who serve so sacrificially.
$233,699 spent$25,955 earned by the program51% of program spendingPrayer Sessions - Serenity Retreat offers a unique and specific type of prayer called Transformation Prayer Ministry (TPM). Prayer appointments can be made by anyone and are offered to the public at no cost. TPM can help anyone, including those suffering from emotional issues, the effects of abuse, depression, and addiction. For 24 years, Serenity Retreat has offered over 1,000 donation-based prayer sessions and several training classes in the TPM method every year. Continued on Schedule O.Of those who are transformed by sessions at Serenity Retreat, 70% no longer feel hopeless, 78% no longer feel overwhelming panic or fear, 58% are able to stop an addictive behavior or substance abuse, 60% have fewer problems caused by anger at work or school, and 75% notice new success in relationships. Sessions are held in person in several locations around Houston, online, or at our Retreat Center west of Houston.
$107,864 spent24% of program spendingTransformative Prayer Ministry (TPM) Training - Serenity Retreat offers TPM training in three formats to the public (Basic Seminar, Transformation Group and Transformation School) and continuing education and training for active prayer ministers (Serenity Live, Filling Station and Truth Camp). The personalized TPM classes are led by experienced TPM Mentors who are considered experts in this field. The hope for this ministry is to equip people to encounter God and receive His truth by teaching them a safe, proven way to discover the root of what's driving them, resulting in transformed hearts and minds.
$115,673 spent$8,076 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $457,236.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.6M (+18%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Board chair
Mark Sorrell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $62k → $204k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal’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 Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 43% · 2019 64% · 2020 45% · 2021 33% · 2022 58% · 2023 28% — 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
71% of Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
76% of Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $312k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $970k 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
Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal?
- Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,783 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($339,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,281,783 in grants to Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $339,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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