California · Nonprofit
HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT
HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,112,962 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,754,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Homeless Garden Project does
Mission
To provide transitional employment/training of people experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Homeless Garden Project (HGP) provides job training, transitional employment and support services to people who are experiencing homelessness. HGP also offers educational and volunteer opportunities to the broader community. The programs take place in an organic farm and in related enterprises.In 2024, the Organization provided 21,827 hours of paid job training. Ninety three percent of program graduates transitioned into stable jobs or income, and 93% transitioned into stable housing. The organization provided 465.5 hours of social work to program participants and addressed over 300 barriers to employment including: Support with financial planning and stability, opening bank accounts and assistance with budgeting, support with technology access, assistance with state and federal benefits enrollment and referral to legal support. The Organization also maintains a retail store which sells a variety of items handmade by volunteers and program trainees. From the broader community 1,314 people served as volunteers, contributing 8,707 hours. In addition, the Organization distributed 13,831 pounds of organic produce to low-income community members through their Feed 2 Birds program.
$1,157,485 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,157,485.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $3.5M (+128%).
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 1% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 19 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $272k → $451k.
19 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 74% · 2020 42% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 27% — 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 HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
80% of HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.0M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: 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 HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT?
- HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,112,962 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,754,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $5,112,962 in grants to HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,754,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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