California · Nonprofit
SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES
SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,432 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $418k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $815k
What Serving Orphans and Widows Ministries does
Mission
Serving orphans & widows ministries provides assistance for orphaned children and widowed women in dire need. We do this by providing life sustaining resources as well as assisting with improving quality of life by assisting with educational needs as well as special projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The blessing children's home construction and project: this includes the construction costs, labor, materials, tools and resources needed to begin building and securing the blessing children's home property.\ including the water well repair, road improvement, construction of a large 3 chamber septic system, fencing a portion of the land, adding a modular home, adding a water tank and pump as well as a solar system for the directors house and missions dorms.
$130,494 spent47% of program spendingOrphanage & widow assistance: this category provides valuable assistance to approx. 150 children living in 5 different orphanages that we serve. We help fill in the gaps and provide the necessary resources so they can ensure the needs of these children are met. Our primary focus is making sure the kids are fed, clothed and have the educational resources needed for school. In addition, we assist with paying monthly bills for electricity, gas & water as needed.
$57,690 spent21% of program spendingHosting missions teams and service groups: this category includes dorms, meals, hiring locals to cook, clean and assist with teams. Teams cover this cost in advance through their donations and we pay out these expenses so they have an excellent unique missions/service experience.
$9,695 spent4% of program spendingOther
$78,843 spent28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $276,722.
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 2023 to 2024, from $654k to $822k (+26%).
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.
99% of SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $29k → $100k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES’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
SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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 SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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
91% of SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES
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
87% 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 SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES: 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 SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES?
- SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,432 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $330,432 in grants to SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES?
- NATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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