California · Nonprofit
BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL
BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,794 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ($138,941). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $466k
What Being Alive People With AIDS Action Coal does
Mission
Being alive is a california nonprofit organization created and operated by and for people living with hiv/aids that engenders a sense of independence and self-determination in its members and builds a healthier and more powerful community of hiv-positive people. Being alive accomplishes its mission through a comprehensive array of emotional support, treatment education, prevention, advocacy, wellness and social services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health education/risk reduction program: as well as providing case management and ''prevention for positives'' in both one-on one and small groups, being alive provides hiv prevention outreach services throughout the year at festivals, special events, substance abuse centers, homeless services agencies, schools and churches, and other venues. Prevention outreach includes public education about new hiv prevention medication treatment known as prep (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for at-risk communities and individuals. Prevention goals include disseminating information about hiv hvi transmission and prevention in new and exciting methods that engage the public and get results. Being alive collaborates with over 100 agencies including partnering with agencies that provide hiv/std testing vans, clinical studies, hep-c treatment, and other public health issues. Prevention materials distributed to the public include condoms, safer sex guidelines, printed material and giveaways that keep public engagement. In 2024, the health education/risk reduction program engaged with 8,466 individuals, gave away 31,500 condoms, 9,015 lube packets, and 7,900 educational materials.
$598,092 spent58% of program spendingMental health and wellness center program: the wellness center programs include care coordination services, acupuncture, chiropractic, facial rejuvenation program, social services navigation and case management, emotional support groups, social activities, and mental health therapy that supports the overall wellness of clients living with hiv/aids. The wellness center program is designed to keep clients engaged not only in their biomedical care, but also active in their overall wellness that encourages a healthy lifestyle. The success of the program can be measured by the fact that 96% of all clients have achieved and are maintaining viral suppression. The mental health program is unique in the fact that there is no limit to the number of free therapy sessions a client can access. Therapists are training in lgbtqia-affirmative therapy and help clients through such complex issues as survivors guilt, disclosure, prsd, trauma, internalized homophobia, and more. Therapists (trainees under supervision of licensed mental health professionals) enter from a variety of universities for on-site training. In 2024, the wellness center had 13,998 appointments/client visits with 3,467 of those…
$343,551 spent33% of program spendingHarm reduction program: the harm reduction program at being alive was established to reduce the number of new hiv infections (along with preventing hcv, covid, and other diseases) among people who use drugs. This program provides a safe, nonjudgemental place for participants to properly dispose of used syringes, pick up new sterile supplies, hygiene kits, wound care kits, narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, and other items that provide a safer environment for those who use drugs, either legally or illegally. Part of the program includes the training of public, security guards, first responders, organizations, and business owners and providing them with lifesaving narcan to prevent opioid overdoses, especially in areas where overdose cases are on the rise. Another aspect of the program is referrals to medical care, hiv testing, housing, and treatment options. The harm reduction program operates 6 days a week at 4 different locations throughout the county. In 2024, the harm reduction program had contact with 6,936 participants, collected 56,512 used syringes, provided 3,992 doses of narcan, and had 480 overdose reversals reported.
$90,499 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,032,142.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $455k to $1.7M (+275%).
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: 2017 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 81% · 2021 60% · 2022 76% · 2023 57% · 2024 77% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jamie Baker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $190k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL’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
BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 48% · 2021 53% · 2022 60% · 2023 32% — 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
50% of BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
54% of BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL
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
81% 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 BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL: 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 BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL?
- BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,794 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ($138,941). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $468,794 in grants to BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL?
- NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $138,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEING ALIVE PEOPLE WITH AIDS ACTION COAL 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 13 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