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SERICA INITIATIVE INC

SERICA INITIATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,657 to it, the largest being DAVID AND CHARLOTTE ACKERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($193,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$719k
Revenue FY2025
21
Funders on record
$693k
Grants received
$154k
Net assets
8/21 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

SERICA INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)80% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2021 Revenue 903 ($190k) Expenses 3437 ($178k) Net assets 458 ($73k)2022 Revenue 615 ($129k) Expenses 2431 ($126k) Net assets 480 ($76k)2023 Revenue 1186 ($249k) Expenses 3489 ($181k) Net assets 914 ($145k)2024 Revenue 1822 ($383k) Expenses 6267 ($324k) Net assets 1285 ($204k)2025 Revenue 3417 ($719k) Expenses 14840 ($768k) Net assets 974 ($154k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (3417)Expenses (14840)Net assets (974)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

28% of SERICA INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
19
$12k
21
$3k
22
$69k
23
$59k
24
$49k
25
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $65k.

10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)33% 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 SERICA INITIATIVE 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

SERICA INITIATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

34% 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 SERICA INITIATIVE INC.

28%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 50% · 2023 38%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

20% of SERICA INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

61% of SERICA INITIATIVE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

MN
NY
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
21
22
23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SERICA INITIATIVE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.

Federal$300k
grants $300kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of State$300k

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 SERICA INITIATIVE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

27% of spending goes to programs.

Program 27%Management 73%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERICA INITIATIVE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SERICA INITIATIVE INC?
SERICA INITIATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,657 to it, the largest being DAVID AND CHARLOTTE ACKERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($193,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SERICA INITIATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $692,657 in grants to SERICA INITIATIVE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SERICA INITIATIVE INC?
DAVID AND CHARLOTTE ACKERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $193,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SERICA INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing