California · Nonprofit
BILL WILSON CENTER
BILL WILSON CENTER (California) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,180,767 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,427,463). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Bill Wilson Center does
Mission
Together we improve the lives of youth, individuals, families and our communities through housing, mental health care, supportive services and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transitional housing services:transitional housing program provides housing and support services for homeless young adults ages 18 - 24, including parenting young adults and their infants/toddlers. Thp+ provides rental subsidies and supportive services for young adults who have aged out of foster care. Thp-non minor dependents provides housing and support services for young adults who have elected to stay in foster care after turning 18. Lgbtq transitional living program is a supportive housing program for homeless young adults ages 18 - 24 who identify as lgbtq. Young adult shelter provides emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless victimized young adults between the ages of 18 - 24. Emergency housing services provide transitional housing to rapid rehousing (th-rrh) options for homeless young adults who have the highest need for support. Young adult family shelter provides emergency shelter and supportive services to families.
$12,517,050 spentof which $5,096,795 as grants$251,723 earned by the program39% of program spendingYouth and family services: safe place provides youth with easy access to services or safety. Family advocacy services provides support to families who have youth enrolled in the san jose and east side union high school districts who are struggling due to their family's homelessness. Rapid rehousing and homeless prevention provide case management and rental assistance to youth and families. Independent living program provides current and former foster youth and young adults, ages 16 - 21, with essential life skills through individual case management, housing and financial assistance, educational classes and workshops, pro-social activities and events, counseling services, and youth leadership development.
$8,921,580 spent28% of program spendingPeacock commons apartments:permanent housing apartment complex provides affordable rent and supportive services for young adults and families residing at peacock commons.
$5,923,482 spent$220,495 earned by the program18% of program spendingMental health services: mental health services are provided to medi-cal eligible individuals and include therapy and psychiatric services, including intensive outpatient and school linked services. Young adult and transition age youth mental health services provide immediate access to therapy and psychiatric services through a crisis line. In-home outreach services are provided to adults in order to engage them in mental health services.
$4,805,821 spent$180,484 earned by the program15% of program spendingDrop-in-center:drop-in-center for homeless youth and young adults provides basic necessities as well as case management, job readiness, housing assistance, hiv prevention, and outreach services with the goal of helping youth and young adults exit the streets.
Counseling services:contact cares volunteers provide supportive listening, information and referral through 24-hour crisis lines. Counselors provide low-cost, professional counseling services to families and individuals of all ages.parent-child interactive therapy and training provides therapeutic coaching to parents with young children in an effort to build positive relationships.school outreach counseling provides on-site counseling services to santa clara unified school district middle and high school students, and several other schools.child abuse treatment program provides counseling for children and youth who have experienced abuse and neglect.centre for living with dying provides emotional support to adults and children facing life threatening illness or the trauma of the loss of a loved one.healing heart program provides emotional support to children and youth who have experienced the loss of a loved one.critical incident stress management provides training and support forfirst responders.volunteer case aide program matches trained volunteers with children in foster care who need services such as tutoring, mentoring, and supervised visits.
Residential programs:residential services provides short-term housing for homeless and runaway youth at bwc's residential programs. Youth receive intensive individual, group, and family counseling in order to reunite youth with their families.transitional housing placement program provides semi-independent living for youth ages 16 to 18, including parenting youth, who are in the foster care system. The youth learn the skills they need to become self-sufficient.
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,167,933.
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 2023 to 2024, from $26M to $31M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 90% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BILL WILSON CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
Josh Selo
CEO
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 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $724k → $1.6M.
16 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 BILL WILSON CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
BILL WILSON CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
77% 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 BILL WILSON CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 30% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 33% · 2023 26% — 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
52% of BILL WILSON CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of BILL WILSON 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. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
BILL WILSON CENTER has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BILL WILSON CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$23.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BILL WILSON 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Peacock Commons LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER?
- BILL WILSON CENTER (California) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,180,767 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,427,463). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BILL WILSON CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $9,180,767 in grants to BILL WILSON CENTER, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILL WILSON CENTER?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,427,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILL WILSON 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.
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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 81 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