California · Nonprofit
Bay Area Community Services Inc
Bay Area Community Services Inc (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,487,903 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($15,752,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Bay Area Community Services Inc does
Mission
BACS' mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing "whatever it takes." BACS helps people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or behavioural health challenges while balancing other complications like health needs, substance use, generational trauma, incarceration, poverty, and more. BACS was founded in 1953 and has served more than 100,000 people; in the past year, BACS has helped over 19,000 people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing - Focused Services:Residential and Housing Navigation rapid re-housing that helps people transition from encampments to housing with the goal of moving people off the streets into on-site housing where various mental health, hygiene, health, and job need support can be provided. Funding is provided by the California cities of Berkeley, Salinas, Hayward, Fremont, Oakland, Richmond and Sacramento.Homelessness Prevention provides emergency financial assistance, housing problem solving and support services, and landlord-tenant relationship support for people currently housed but at risk of losing their housing. Funding is provided by various private and foundation donations as well as the California cities of Emeryville, Hayward, Oakland, Freemont and San Francisco. Programs include Keep Oakland Housed, Keep Everyone Housed, Oakland Shallow Subsidy Program, and Hayward Shallow Subsidy Program.Housing Fast provides interim housing and support services to single adult homeless individuals with a determined focus on finding permanent housing. Sites include the Henry Robinson Multi-Service Center, Holland Hotel, Don Brown Center, Berkeley STAIR Center, Hayward Navigation Center,…
$50,068,335 spentof which $19,124,236 as grants$1,787,200 earned by the program48% of program spendingSocial Services:Case Management provides clinical care coordination such as assessment, treatment, andbrokerage to numerous community resources to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. Funding is provided by the county of origin for the person served in Hayward, Oakland, Vallejo, Richmond, and Concord, California. IPS Supported Employment support employment services based in the individualized placement and support (IPS) evidence-based model, supporting people with complex needs, behavioral health challenges, co-occurring disorders, and/or who are experiencing homelessness to find and maintain competitive, satisfying employment. Funding is provided by Alameda County Behavioral Health. Re-entry Treatment provides integrated, comprehensive support including mental health services, substance use services, and housing support services with the goal of reducing the recidivism of justice-involved adults who are experiencing mental health issues and/or substance use issues.Crisis Residential Treatment / Crisis Stabilization Unit residential services to individuals who are experiencing active psychiatric distress, who may have just left emergency psychiatric…
$53,606,053 spentof which $4,673,451 as grants52% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,674,388.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $31M to $44M (+42%).
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: 2018 85% · 2019 80% · 2020 77% · 2021 86% · 2022 87% · 2023 89% · 2024 89% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Jaime Almanza
CEO
Board chair
John Steinfirst
Chair (JUL-SEPT)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $56k → $6.5M.
21 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Bay Area Community Services Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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
Bay Area Community Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 Bay Area Community Services Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 29% · 2019 89% · 2020 63% · 2021 32% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% — 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
38% of Bay Area Community Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
98% of Bay Area Community Services Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Bay Area Community Services Inc
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 4 related entities
- East Bay Transitional Homes Inc · exempt
- Bay Area Community Services Housing · exempt
- Adolescent Treatment Centers · exempt
- BACS Prevention Platform Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bay Area Community Services 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bay Area Community Services Inc?
- Bay Area Community Services Inc (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,487,903 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($15,752,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bay Area Community Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $39,487,903 in grants to Bay Area Community Services Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bay Area Community Services Inc?
- CRANKSTART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,752,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bay Area Community Services Inc 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 59 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