California · Nonprofit
Prospect Silicon Valley
Prospect Silicon Valley (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($215,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $491k
What Prospect Silicon Valley does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to advance progress in sustainability and decarbonization of energy, transportation, and infrastructure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For more information please visit www.prospectsv.org/our-workBuilding Decarbonization Policy SupportProspectSV is supporting nationwide policy research with LBNL, to characterize howindustry tools, services, programs, and finance may or may not support compliancewith Building Performance Standards (BPS) for smaller buildings and small portfolios.Our work includes researching BPS-relevant software tools for owners of underservedbuildings who have limited resources and internal expertise. Activities under thistask include conducting outreach and interviews with product providers, developingoverviews of capabilities and benefits of products reviewed, and distributing resultsin a snapshot analysis to target audiences. Also, ProspectSV is conducting alandscape study of financing mechanisms related to decarbonization investments forsmall businesses and under-served buildings, with a focus on building performancestandard compliance and electrification. In addition, ProspectSV is engaging BPSstakeholder working groups that will help inform LBNLs BPS Policy TechnicalAssistance efforts by identifying specific building owner needs. We engage owners,capital entities, and other CRE…
$579,452 spent$1,061,542 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $579,452.
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 $2.1M to $847k (−59%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Prospect Silicon Valley’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Gordon Ho
Chairman/Sec.
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $30k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Prospect Silicon Valley’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Prospect Silicon Valley leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 Prospect Silicon Valley.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 38% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Prospect Silicon Valley draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Prospect Silicon Valley is better cushioned than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Prospect Silicon Valley
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Prospect Silicon Valley: 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 Prospect Silicon Valley?
- Prospect Silicon Valley (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($215,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prospect Silicon Valley have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $325,000 in grants to Prospect Silicon Valley, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prospect Silicon Valley?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prospect Silicon Valley 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 3 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