California · Nonprofit
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,922 to it, the largest being RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ($131,164). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $295k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center does
Mission
BHNC focuses on the needs of people with low and moderate incomes. We work to accomplish our mission by: (1) developing affordable housing throughout San Francisco; (2) providing linguistically and culturally responsive services to our community's most vulnerable adults, seniors, youth and their families; (3) developing leaders, organizing and empowering our tenants, clients, members and allies to advocate for their needs and for the needs of the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth programs: to meet and overcome the challenges faced by teens and young adults, programs were developed that create a network of comprehensive, supportive services to provide empowerment and leadership development opportunities for our youth. BHNC has developed effective gang prevention, case management, leadership development, civic engagement, and advocacy training, recreation and employment services and food justice education. Youth and their families receive positive alternatives that do make a difference in a young person's life. BHNC also provides year-round youth employment training through the Mayor's Youth Employment and Education Program (MYEEP).
$317,337 spentof which $3,027 as grants$80,119 earned by the program11% of program spendingSenior services: Programs designed to improve the quality of life of elders through services including daily lunch service, home food delivery, food pantry, educational and recreational programming, health and wellness programs, home safety, and social services for elders coping with difficult problems. Our goal is to provide empowerment and leadership development opportunities for seniors in our community.
$784,085 spent28% of program spendingCommunity outreach and organizing programs: Designed to empower, inform, and develop the civic capacity of citizens in the community. BHNC runs and facilitates issue-based campaigns, hosts and facilitates regular community convening neighborhood hotspot walks, public safety forums, and organizes annual community events, such as fiesta on the hill, community congress, holiday toy giveaway and the hill wide garage sale.
$102,238 spent4% of program spendingHousing programs: Programs designed to construct, rehabilitate, and operate housing for individuals and families with low-income and special needs. BHNC also provides onsite services to include community development, relocation services, community engagement, onsite public safety meetings, and resident leadership training.
$1,601,694 spent57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,805,354.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.2M to $4.4M (+38%).
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 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 37% · 2020 54% · 2021 39% · 2022 39% · 2023 36% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Gina Dacus
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $36k → $39k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bernal Heights Housing Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 52% · 2019 50% · 2020 30% · 2021 59% · 2022 64% · 2023 57% — 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 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
72% of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 13 related entities
- Bernal Heights Housing Corporation · exempt
- Boomerang Housing Corporation · exempt
- Bernal Gateway Housing Corporation · exempt
- 5199 Mission Street Senior HousingInc · exempt
- St Peters Supportive Housing Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center: 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 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center?
- Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,922 to it, the largest being RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ($131,164). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $294,922 in grants to Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center?
- RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $131,164 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center 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.
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 15 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