California · Nonprofit
Safe Organized Spaces Richmond
Safe Organized Spaces Richmond (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,780 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($28,780). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $973k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $286k
What Safe Organized Spaces Richmond does
Mission
At SOS Richmond, we believe trusted community and warm support make big life changes possible. Our model employs our unhoused neighbors to holistically serve and accompany their peers on the journey from tent to home. This engagement meets people with trust, care, and dignity, and our workforce and wellness services open doors for personal change. By partnering homeless lived expertise with community-based organizations, we lower barriers to care so people can be safe and secure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SOS Richmond staff, of whom 81% of the 53 employed in the first half of 2025 had lived experience of homelessness, provide an array of Engagement Services : In-Encampment Services include harm reduction, trash cleanup, survival gear distribution, and peer support during encampment removals. Mobile Services include mobile showers, laundry, potable water and food delivery, and transportation, opening a low-barrier gateway to community resources. To build sustainable futures, a Job Readiness Program transitionally employs unhoused individuals and offers paid work experience, 1:1 coaching, classroom training, as well as opportunities for extended and regular employment. In the first half of 2025 SOS delivered 1,522 showers, 1,934 laundry visits, disposed of 148 tons of trash, and employed 40 unhoused and recently unhoused individuals.
$606,831 spentof which $50 as grants$78,823 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe Warm Hand Wellness Centers, hosted by SOS Richmond, are pioneering, new low-barrier service hubs that provide a dignified pathway from tent to home. Serving as a vital nexus, it convenes workforce development, wellness support, and care advocacy under one roof. Its transformative model is rooted in the power of peer-led, trusted relationships with others who share lived experience of homelessness that bridge connections between unhoused neighbors and a network of over 22 partner organizations. Through its "wellness-first" approach, The Warm Hand effectively engages the community's unhoused individuals, seeing 920 visits to our wellness centers in the first half of 2025. In this way the SOS Richmonds Warm Hand Wellness centers are creating sustainable pathways to stability.
$88,762 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $695,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $253k to $412k (+63%).
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: 2022 93% · 2023 77% · 2024 77% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Safe Organized Spaces Richmond’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Peter Mu
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Safe Organized Spaces Richmond’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
Safe Organized Spaces Richmond leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 Safe Organized Spaces Richmond.
“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
72% of Safe Organized Spaces Richmond'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Safe Organized Spaces Richmond runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Safe Organized Spaces Richmond
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Safe Organized Spaces Richmond: 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 Safe Organized Spaces Richmond?
- Safe Organized Spaces Richmond (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,780 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($28,780). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Safe Organized Spaces Richmond have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $89,780 in grants to Safe Organized Spaces Richmond, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Safe Organized Spaces Richmond?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Safe Organized Spaces Richmond 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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