California · Nonprofit
Openhouse
Openhouse (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,748,320 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,135,753). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Openhouse does
Mission
Openhouse enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs. (continued on Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Engagement: To ameliorate social and environmental conditions that may serve as barriers for LGBTQ seniors, Openhouse organizes over 100 hours per month of intellectually stimulating activities and opportunities that bring LGBTQ+ older adults together to meet each other, reduce social isolation and enhance their quality of life. Activities include game days, bi-weekly and monthly lunches, movie screenings, museum tours and other outings, general discussion groups, financial planning seminars, and arts and writing workshops.(Continued on Schedule O)
$2,470,274 spent56% of program spendingCommunity Support Services: Under the Openhouse Community Support Services Department, 55 Laguna and its neighboring building, 95 Laguna are uniquely designed to support LGBTQ+ seniors. Both buildings were established through a partnership between Mercy Housing, a nonprofit housing developer, and Openhouse a community nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ seniors. Through this partnership, Mercy Housing provides property management and resident services, and Openhouse provides a range of activities and services for LGBTQ+ seniors that honor and affirm their experience and create a safe home environment within community. Openhouse also provides case management for Continuum of Care participants of all genders, sexual identities and expressions who live on site. (Continued on Schedule O)
$1,138,383 spent26% of program spendingStrategic Partnerships: The Strategic Partnerships and Training department aims to transform the existing infrastructure of aging clinical and social services in a multi-pronged approach. Strategic partners are organizations with a demonstrated commitment to transforming their existing expertise to better serve LGBTQ+ older adults and adults with disabilities. An example of a strategic partner is the existing partnership with On Lok, a highly recognized community-based healthcare organization who are creators of the PACE healthcare model. Together, we co-created the first-of-its-kind adult day program, for and by the LGBTQ+ community. This kind of transformational work is a powerful component gleaned from our training work. Our DAS funded training and transformational work is responsible for executing robust interactive learning experiences to agencies, organizations, and non-profits to adapt their expertise to become inclusive to older adults who happen to be LGBTQ+. We provide assessment tools for skilled nursing and residential care facilities, adapt and tailor trainings to clinicians, social workers, and other providers all in the aim to inform culturally competent clinical…
$771,937 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,380,594.
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 $3.2M to $7.1M (+121%).
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 35% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 41% · 2021 44% · 2022 36% · 2023 42% · 2024 44% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Openhouse’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kathleen Sullivan
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $630k → $947k.
11 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Openhouse’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
Openhouse leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% 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
67% 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 Openhouse.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 56% · 2019 45% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 69% · 2023 53% — 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
41% of Openhouse'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
63% of Openhouse'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M 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
Openhouse holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Openhouse
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Openhouse: 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 Openhouse?
- Openhouse (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,748,320 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,135,753). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Openhouse have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $7,748,320 in grants to Openhouse, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Openhouse?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,135,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Openhouse 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing