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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,006,491 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($4,800,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$22M
Funders on record
66
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$5.4M
34/66 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin does

Mission

Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive caring and responsible citizens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin (bgcsm)currently serves over 10,000 club members in twelve communities in sonoma and marin counties by providing after school and summer camp programs. During the year bgcsm served over 213,000 meals to club members at no cost to participants. These meals meet the federal nutritional requirements. In addition, bgcsm staff provided over 678,000 hours of homework assistance to club members. The miracle of learning enables all our young people to realize their full potential as productive and responsible citizens. Through our other programs bgcsm staff worked with club members on leadership skills, teamwork by participating in over 176 different team sports; character and citizenship by providing over 19,000 hours of community service. Overall, bgcsm focuses on five core program areas of character and leadership development; health and life skills; the arts; sports, fitness and recreation; academic success and career development.

    $18,110,298 spentof which $5,025,108 as grants$2,461,576 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,110,298.

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 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 121 ($9.1M) Expenses 109 ($6.9M) Net assets 122 ($13M)2020 Revenue 145 ($11M) Expenses 128 ($8.0M) Net assets 167 ($17M)2021 Revenue 161 ($12M) Expenses 86 ($5.4M) Net assets 242 ($25M)2022 Revenue 225 ($17M) Expenses 117 ($7.4M) Net assets 312 ($32M)2023 Revenue 302 ($23M) Expenses 804 ($50M) Net assets 47 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 304 ($23M) Expenses 348 ($22M) Net assets 57 ($5.9M)2025 Revenue 288 ($22M) Expenses 354 ($22M) Net assets 52 ($5.4M)
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Revenue (288)Expenses (354)Net assets (52)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 2022 to 2023, from $34M to $25M (−27%).

$11M
$13M
$19M
$26M
$34M
$25M
$28M
$27M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 54% · 2018 66% · 2020 54% · 2021 55% · 2022 43% · 2023 64% · 2024 83% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 149 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
’17
$2.3M
’18
$2.9M
’20
$6.7M
’21
$9.6M
’22
−$28M
’23
$1.0M
’24
−$529k
’25
1.0
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

Jennifer Weiss

CEO

Board chair

Michelle Blake

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1211161113121522
Joined·+1·+3+4+4+4+10
No longer listed·2·82513
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $646k → $2.0M.

16 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN.

34%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 37% · 2019 43% · 2020 40% · 2021 25% · 2022 81% · 2023 40% — 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

36% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
NC
GA
TX

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 95 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.

Federal$4.0M
grants $4.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M

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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Boys & Girls Club of Windsor Found · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN?
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,006,491 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($4,800,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN have?
IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $14,006,491 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN 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.

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 66 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