California · Nonprofit
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,931,299 to it, the largest being DIANE AND DOROTHY BROOKS FOUNDATION ($900,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Beauty Bus Foundation does
Mission
Beauty Bus Foundation delivers loving kindness, support and compassion to seriously ill patients and their caregivers through beauty and grooming services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Beauty bus uplifts patients and caregivers through the restorative power of beauty and human connection delivering comfort, confidence, and care during some of lifes most difficult moments. Since its founding in 2009, beauty bus has provided free hair, makeup, nail, facial, and self-care services to more than 35,000 patients and caregivers, navigating cancer, chronic illness, disability, caregiving, and profound life disruption. Through compassionate human touch and meaningful connection, beauty bus helps restore dignity, identity, and a sense of self that illness and hardship often diminish. The impact of this work was powerfully described by a director of psycho-oncology and cancer support services who observed beauty bus services within a hospital infusion center: beauty bus services are one of the biggest small things you can do - to open a door for a cancer patient to help them regain a little more control and start to feel like themselves again.
$644,701 spent100% of program spendingCore programspop-up salons: beauty bus transforms hospitals and community health centers into uplifting salon experiences by bringing professional hairstylists, makeup artists, estheticians, and nail technicians directly to patients and caregivers. These events create moments of joy, normalcy, and community in environments often defined by stress and uncertainty. Up to 100 clients may be served during a single 3-hour event, with each guest receiving a bag of beauty containing $50$100 worth of donated products from leading beauty industry partners, extending care and encouragement beyond the day itself. Beauty series: the beauty series integrates beauty bus services directly into healthcare and social service settings through recurring weekly programming. By embedding licensed beauty professionals within hospitals and partner organizations, beauty bus ensures continuity of care and trusted relationships with patients and caregivers. Services such as facials, haircuts, wig fittings, scalp and skin care, and hand treatments are provided bedside, in infusion bays, or within designated communal salon spaces. Home visits: in partnership with the als network, beauty bus delivers…
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $644,701.
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 2021 to 2022, from $740k to $1.3M (+78%).
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.
91% of BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Liliana Cerilo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $101k → $241k.
10 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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 BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 68% · 2023 41% — 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
34% of BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
90% of BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $659k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: 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 BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION?
- BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,931,299 to it, the largest being DIANE AND DOROTHY BROOKS FOUNDATION ($900,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $2,931,299 in grants to BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION?
- DIANE AND DOROTHY BROOKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing