California · Nonprofit
PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES
PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,934 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($185,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $523k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Portuguese Organization for Social Services and Opportunities does
Mission
Posso is a community-led non-profit organization, and at the heart of its mission is a commitment to support the health, well-being and independence of migrant populations via our direct services and by serving as a bridge to available resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Senior nutrition services provided nearly 67,400 freshly prepared meals for the year via a daily on-site lunch program and a meals on wheels (home-delivered meals) program. In addition, a frozen meal delivery service began this year with more than 35,000 meals delivered to homebound seniors. Also, as a distribution center for second harvest of silicon valley, approximately 750 boxes of free groceries were provided monthly to low-income families and individuals through the weekly usda commodities and semi-monthly brown bag programs.
$1,341,836 spent$21,416 earned by the program73% of program spendingSocial services supported more than 2,900 individuals and families. Services included translation and transportation, case management, patient navigation, daily wellness checks, health education workshops, blood pressure and vaccine clinics, bingocize, senior walks and beach picnics and exercise and cooking classes. Additional services included an ipad program for older adults, consultations with a licensed social worker, helping clients with various government processes, such as driver's license renewals at the dmv and retirement forms at social security offices, assisting with applications for calfresh, medicare, liheap, etc., and supporting civic engagement through a weekly u.s. Citizenship class, voter registration, and language translation/transportation to election polls.
$495,190 spent$76,429 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,837,026.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+11%).
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 52% · 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 63% · 2021 72% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% · 2024 74% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Elsa Oliveira
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $33k → $65k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 47% · 2021 68% · 2022 50% · 2023 38% — 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
75% of PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
89% of PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES: 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 PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES?
- PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,934 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($185,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $522,934 in grants to PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES 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 12 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