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BOMA FOUNDATION

BOMA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,175 to it, the largest being HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$29k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$306k
Net assets
$90k
4/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Boma Foundation does

Mission

The mission of the Boma Foundation is to serve the commercial real estate industry by fostering a future vision, forward thinking research, innovative thought, and global best practices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide education support as well as career support to students and veterans interested in potential careers in commercial real estate.

    $22,185 spent$8 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,185.

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 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2018 Revenue 198 ($33k) Expenses 78 ($18k) Net assets 171 ($34k)2019 Revenue 312 ($51k) Expenses 89 ($21k) Net assets 321 ($65k)2020 Revenue 213 ($35k) Expenses 55 ($13k) Net assets 430 ($86k)2021 Revenue 152 ($25k) Expenses 91 ($22k) Net assets 447 ($90k)2022 Revenue 59 ($10k) Expenses 102 ($24k) Net assets 374 ($75k)2023 Revenue 151 ($25k) Expenses 134 ($32k) Net assets 341 ($68k)2024 Revenue 176 ($29k) Expenses 56 ($13k) Net assets 448 ($90k)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (56)Net assets (448)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 2018 to 2019, from $37k to $70k (+91%).

$28k
$37k
$70k
$92k
$92k
$79k
$76k
$90k
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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

95% of BOMA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 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.

−$7k
’17
$14k
’18
$30k
’19
$22k
’20
$3k
’21
−$15k
’22
−$7k
’23
$16k
’24
29
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.

Board chair

Robert M Six

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed6665555
Joined·+1+1+1+2+1+2
No longer listed·112212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $155k.

From the IRS filings of BOMA FOUNDATION’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

BOMA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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

BOMA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.

NY
CA
DE
TX

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

BOMA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin54% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOMA FOUNDATION: 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 BOMA FOUNDATION?
BOMA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,175 to it, the largest being HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOMA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $306,175 in grants to BOMA FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOMA FOUNDATION?
HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOMA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 5 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