California · Nonprofit
BIA CARES
BIA CARES (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,482 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Bia Cares does
Mission
To build and contribute to projects that facilitate charitable outreach on behalf of san diego's building industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Bia Cares annual trapshoot event yielded $25,657 in net profits to benefit the organizations scholarship and other contributions distributed throughout the year.
$8,260 spentof which $28,465 as grants17% of program spendingBia Cares donated 130 new bicycles and helmets to needy children in 2024. Each year bikes are given to under priviledged children all over san diego. 2024's bike drive recipients included: sweetwater elementary navy seal family foundationstar/pal after school program sd community solutions domestic violence programnfl retired players foundationpro-kids golf academy & learning centerpromises2kids foundationuss monsoor naval holiday programstar/pal foundationmarine corps toys for totscopley price ymcabarrio station bilateral human trafficking coalition foundationurban street angels
$14,248 spentof which $14,248 as grants30% of program spendingBia Cares donated $15,000 in scholarships to high school and college students who are seeking a career in the building industry for the 2024 year. Students must be full time, from san diego county or going to school in san diego and be pursuing a career such as developer, contractor, architect, civil/structural/soils engineer, designer, banker, accountant, landscape architect, planner, framer, carpenter, plumber, electrician or other real estate professions. For 2024 we awarded 9 scholarships, 6 high school and 3 college students.
$15,000 spent32% of program spending$5k to rise up industries donation to help complete renovations on phase 1 of the rise up industries new facility. $5k to prokids golf academy donation to support the pro kids golf academy programs.
$10,000 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,508.
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 2018 to 2019, from $131k to $104k (−20%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $178 → $13k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 BIA CARES’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
BIA CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 BIA CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of BIA CARES'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 BIA CARES
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.
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 BIA CARES: 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 BIA CARES?
- BIA CARES (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,482 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIA CARES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,482 in grants to BIA CARES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIA CARES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIA CARES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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