California · Nonprofit
BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK
BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,301 to it, the largest being LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($111,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $327k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Bay Area Furniture Bank does
Mission
To promote dignity and stability by redirecting donated furniture to families in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Bay Area Furniture Bank is to provide gently used, donated furniture and household goods to those who have suffered personal tragedy or disaster. Our goal is to decrease human suffering in the san francisco bay area and assist the community in need to achieve restored hope. Self-esteem and the stability to move ahead. We believe that no one shoud be forced to live, sleep, or eat on the floor. We serve veterans, homeless families with childrenl and individuals transitioning to housing, domestic violence victims, foster children aging out, refugees, victims of fire and flooding, and low income earning families. The Bay Area Furniture Bank picks up unneeded used furniture and delivers it to individuals and families moving put of homelessness or who are in need. (continued on schedule o)during the period july 1, 2024 to june 30, 2025, the Bay Area Furniture Bank delivered 8,026 pieces of furniure to 804 households. The Bay Area Furniture Bank worked with 45 social service agencies and programs to identify these households and to provide them with free furniture. Of all assisted individuals 44% of them were children.to help provide these services, the organization also…
$1,124,829 spentof which $459,287 as grants$1,016,706 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,124,829.
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.
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 $324k to $675k (+108%).
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: 2019 20% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Richard Gross
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $14k.
8 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 FURNITURE BANK’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
BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
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 BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 44% · 2020 42% · 2021 32% · 2022 52% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
84% of BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK'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 $52k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK: 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 FURNITURE BANK?
- BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,301 to it, the largest being LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($111,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $327,301 in grants to BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK?
- LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $111,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY AREA FURNITURE BANK 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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