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BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC

BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC (Virginia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,041,279 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($1,004,926). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.3M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$7.0M
Net assets
$1.9M
21/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Boat People S O S Inc does

Mission

To assist Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in their search for life in liberty and dignity by empowering and organizing Vietnamese American communities in their progress towards self sufficiency

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. With teams of qualified staff and passionate volunteers operating in 7 office locations across the United States and internationally, we empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through: - Direct Services - Advocacy - Community Organizing and Development - Media - Research - Leadership Development

    $2,123,150 spent
    100% of program spending

  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,123,150.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 81 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 115 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 77 ($3.4M) Expenses 113 ($3.7M) Net assets 102 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 78 ($3.5M) Expenses 102 ($3.3M) Net assets 110 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 114 ($5.1M) Expenses 122 ($4.0M) Net assets 161 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 134 ($6.0M) Expenses 155 ($5.1M) Net assets 191 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 60 ($2.7M) Expenses 83 ($2.7M) Net assets 137 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 51 ($2.3M) Expenses 99 ($3.3M) Net assets 91 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (51)Expenses (99)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

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 $3.4M to $4.8M (+41%).

$2.6M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$3.4M
$4.6M
$4.6M
$3.4M
$4.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 67% · 2019 70% · 2020 69% · 2021 54% · 2022 65% · 2023 56% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.2M
’17
$364k
’18
−$269k
’19
$184k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$917k
’22
−$12k
’23
−$973k
’24
3.3
months of
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

Nguyen Dinh Thang

President & CEO

Board chair

Tuyet N Dinh

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1111111111999
Joined·+1+0+4+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·1040210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $1.1M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Freedom Houseunclassified
$73k
AARP Foundationunclassified
$30k
Oxfam-America Incunclassified
$22k
Houston in Actionunclassified
$10k
funders
10
10
10
14
10
8
12
9
5
1

9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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

100% 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 BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC.

14%
largest funder
37%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 30% · 2019 22% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 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

38% of BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.

MA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−43% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record.

Federal$8.1M
grants $8.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$5.3M
  • Department of Justice$1.0M
  • Department of Labor$865k
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$711k
  • Department of Homeland Security$225k

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 BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC

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 Virginia

Boatus Foundation75%No One Left Behind74%Viet-Nam Assistance for the Handicapped74%House of Hope Inc73%Ethiopian Community Dev Council Inc73%Foundation to Support Animal Protection72%Resources for Independent Living Inc72%Navy Safe Harbor Foundation72%

Nationally

Boat People Sos Inc90%Voice Vietnamese Overseas Initiative Conscience Empowerment76%Peace Boat US Inc76%Lifeboat 1476%Homeward Bound USA Inc76%Social Assistance Program for Vietnam76%Voice of Refugees Inc76%Boatus Foundation75%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 35%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Boat People - California · exempt
  • Boat People SOS - Georgia · exempt
  • Boat People SOS - Alabama · exempt
  • Boat People SOS - Mississippi · exempt
  • Boat People SOS - Texas · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC: 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 BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC?
BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC (Virginia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,041,279 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($1,004,926). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $7,041,279 in grants to BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC?
Texas Access to Justice Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,004,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 33 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