California · Nonprofit
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES (California) receives grants from 493 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,843,595 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,127,000). 310 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 493
- Grants received
- $122M
- Net assets
- $78M
What Homeboy Industries does
Mission
Provides hope, training, and support to previously incarcerated and formerly gang involved men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development, job training & support servicescase management, curriculum, job development, legal services, mental health, airport/licensing, retreats, tatoo removal. Job training: Homeboy Industries' 18-month job training program combines on-the-job learning with comprehensive services and unconditional support. Each year, hundreds of former gang members and previously incarcerated men and women learn hard and soft job skills in the organization's social enterprises while receiving services that foster inner transformation, case management, tattoo removal, legal assistance, mentla health services, academic and life skills classes, and employment services.
$15,025,832 spent45% of program spendingSocial enterpriseshomeboy bakery - trainees at one of our oldest social enterprise business learn all aspects of baking, from ordering supplies to operating a pastry machine to interacting with customers. We sell artisan breads, pastries, and cakes at our headquarters and farmers' markets around los angeles, as well as to local restaurants. Homeboy bakery was the organization's original mission business, founded in 1994, where former rivals worked side by side as scratch bakers located in an 80-year old building, the bakery suffered an electrical fire in 1999. In 2005, homeboy hired several young men to prepare them to become leaders in the new bakery. These bakers attended classes at los angeles trade tech and interned at a local bakery, readying themselves to reopen the bakery in 2007 located in the new homeboy facility. Homeboy bakery reopened its doors to the public on october 2, 2007, in a modern, well-equipped home under the guidance of master baker alvaro ocequeda. The lead bakers work alongside trainees hired to take their first steps in the bakery world.homegirl cafe - where trainees can build self-esteem as well as job skills. By working alongside other trainees, some of…
$9,468,188 spent$6,214,581 earned by the program28% of program spendingKinship grant program (homeboy services, inc.)
$8,787,797 spentof which $8,787,797 as grants26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,281,817.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $59M (+129%).
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 14% · 2018 10% · 2019 5% · 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% 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.
Chief executive
Thomas Vozzo
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mercedes Martinez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 102 funders to 209 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $25M.
55 of 493 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 493 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
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
55% 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 HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 14% · 2019 9% · 2020 26% · 2021 56% · 2022 8% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record — $11.9M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Labor$7.5M
- Department of Commerce$4.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- NJ$3k
- FL$2k
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 HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Regen la LLC · disregarded
- Homeboy Ventures & Jobs Fund LLC · disregarded
- Homeboy Media LLC · disregarded
- Puppy Fades LLC · disregarded
- Homeboy Services Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: 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 HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES?
- HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES (California) receives grants from 493 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,843,595 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,127,000). 310 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 493 organizations giving $121,843,595 in grants to HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES, 310 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $20,127,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 493 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