California · Nonprofit
BOSS Inc
BOSS Inc (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,719 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($740,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What BOSS Inc does
Mission
Provide mentoring, tutoring, and counseling to at-risk youths.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
BOSS Program offers a unique, multi-disciplinary mentoring and leadership development program to BIPOC boys with an academic focus on the STEM disciplines in the context of an overall life-support system. BOSS is a cost and programmatically effective year-round, multi-year program that translates the mindset and discipline of achievement in sports into the gamification and teamwork of STEM projects to build the foundational skills needed for long-term success in higher education and, ultimately, careers in STEM disciplines.
$695,560 spentof which $125,859 as grants$217,058 earned by the program100% of program spendingBOSS Camp includes facility rental, meals, field activities, counseling, and mentoring. BOSS Camp is an intense two week experience that begins BOSS year-round programming every summer. Boys learn about the BOSS process of leadership development; take numerous field trips (Microsoft, SpaceX, Port of Long Beach, Lakers basketball clinic); hear from accomplished professionals and practice their communication skills; sharpen critical thinking skills; and engage with their mentors to establish momentum and a positive mindset for success in life and the coming school year. BOSS boys get the opportunity to participate in the annual Math Madness competition; design and build robotics projects; and build and practice their coding skills while learning about future STEM career opportunities. We are pleased to report that 99% of high school grads are pursuing post-secondary education at a time when nearly 75% of the same youth do not qualify to even apply to college at high school graduation, including 13 high school graduates in 2025. Leveraging our train the trainer strategy, we have also supported 15 college students to graduation, including several pursuing advanced degrees.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $695,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.4M (+39%).
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: 2023 6% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of BOSS Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $168k.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 BOSS Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
BOSS Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 BOSS Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 44% · 2023 30% — 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
27% of BOSS Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
79% of BOSS Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $867k 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.
Against its field
BOSS Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOSS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 BOSS 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 BOSS Inc?
- BOSS Inc (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,755,719 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($740,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSS Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,755,719 in grants to BOSS Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSS Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $740,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSS Inc 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 36 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