California · Nonprofit
BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY
BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,150 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($925,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $-847751
What Building Opp for Self-Sufficiency does
Mission
BOSS's mission is to help homeless, poor and disabled people achieve health and self sufficiency, and to fight against the root causes of poverty and homelessness in its community of Alameda County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
BOSS provides housing and comprehensive support services to homeless, disabled, and very low-income families and individuals, to help them build new skills, overcome urgent health problems and other crises, and achieve stable income and permanent housing in the community. To achieve this goal, BOSS provides the following programs: Community Housing Support Services: BOSS provides the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness PATH outreach and referral services. Shelter Plus Care S+C case management services. CalAim Housing and community supports services. HRC/West Oakland Access Points, Coordinated Entry Assessments referrals for primary healthcare, substance use, mental health, benefits, job training, educational services, and housing. Income Services: BOSS helps people secure public benefits they are eligible for General Assistance, Social Security/Disability benefits, unemployment, veterans benefits, CalFresh, Covered California enrollments. BOSS shelters have computer labs where people can learn and practice software modules, to increase job skills, and work on resumes. BOSS provides Representative Payee services to individuals referred by Social Security as…
$18,889,835 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,889,835.
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 2024 to 2025, from $10M to $20M (+97%).
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: 2017 80% · 2018 86% · 2019 90% · 2020 89% · 2021 74% · 2022 81% · 2023 84% · 2024 87% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Donald Frazier
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $367k → $1.1M.
16 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
60% 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 BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 28% — 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
47% of BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
98% of BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY has grown faster than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$799k
- Department of Justice$641k
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 BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY: 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 BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY?
- BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,150 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($925,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $5,429,150 in grants to BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY?
- SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY 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 53 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