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SERO GROUP INC

SERO GROUP INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,562 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($317,562). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$114k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$328k
Net assets
$2k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Sero Group Inc does

Mission

ORPHAN CARE: Sero Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit community development initiative with local and global reach seeking to strengthen neighborhoods and villages through orphan care, education, microfinance, revitalization, legal aid, and development projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Sero Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit community development initiative with local and global reach seeking to strengthen neighborhoods and villages through orphan care, education, microfinance, revitalization, legal aid, and development projects.

    $125,038 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,038.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($149k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2018 Revenue 150 ($223k) Expenses 130 ($214k) Net assets 147 ($27k)2019 Revenue 191 ($285k) Expenses 154 ($254k) Net assets 317 ($58k)2020 Revenue 51 ($76k) Expenses 77 ($127k) Net assets 37 ($7k)2021 Revenue 47 ($70k) Expenses 46 ($76k) Net assets 2 ($432)2022 Revenue 82 ($122k) Expenses 65 ($107k) Net assets 88 ($16k)2023 Revenue 92 ($137k) Expenses 66 ($108k) Net assets 246 ($45k)2024 Revenue 55 ($82k) Expenses 76 ($125k) Net assets 9 ($2k)2025 Revenue 77 ($114k) Expenses 69 ($114k) Net assets 10 ($2k)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (69)Net assets (10)Peer revenue range

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 $58k to $7k (−88%).

$18k
$27k
$58k
$7k
$432
$16k
$45k
$2k
$2k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SERO GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$9k
’18
$31k
’19
−$51k
’20
−$6k
’21
$16k
’22
$29k
’23
−$43k
’24
$152
’25
2.7
months of
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.

20182019
Listed22
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $29k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
2
1
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SERO GROUP 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

SERO GROUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

100% 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 SERO GROUP INC.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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 SERO GROUP INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SERO GROUP INC's revenue fell 23% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SERO GROUP INC?
SERO GROUP INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,562 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($317,562). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SERO GROUP INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $327,562 in grants to SERO GROUP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SERO GROUP INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,562 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SERO GROUP INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2 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