California · Nonprofit
TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS
TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,163,107 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,903,796). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Taller San Jose Hope Builders does
Mission
Hope builders empowers disadvantaged young adults with the mentorship, job skills and life skills training that meets the needs of employers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Applicant: the applicant stage includes all those who submitted an application to hope builders. Applicants need to be between the ages of 18-28, with right-to-work documents. Hope builders casts a wide net to recruit as many applicants as possible. We thoroughly vet and screen each applicant to identify those who are motivated to change their current circumstances and excited to start building their career. Applicants, who complete all steps of the process, are invited to orientation. An applicant who completes this stage must agree to the trainee pledge and renew their commitment to becoming a hope builder.
$495,463 spent13% of program spendingTrainee: the trainee stage includes those who successfully complete the application process and enroll in one of the job training pathways (construction, child development, or healthcare). The goal of this stage is to get young adults workforce ready. The training simulates the workplace and reinforces employer expectations. Hope builders believes that skills training must also include coaching and mentoring to address the underlying barriers to successful employment. Each training academy includes life skills training, case management, basic skill enrichment, employment readiness, and technical skills. Trainees receive a weekly $100 stipend and have access to transportation and childcare vouchers, as needed. Workforce readiness is assessed weekly. Those who have not yet met required level or who experience a set back in readiness are provided supplemental services to address barriers. A trainee who completes this stage must agree to the career builder pledge and renew their commitment to becoming a hope builder.
$1,949,402 spentof which $448,085 as grants50% of program spendingCareer builder: the career builder stage includes the young adults who have successfully met workforce readiness standards and are now taking steps to enter the workforce. Workforce ready candidates work closely with staff to secure a quality job within a career pathway. Through hbcc, employers who can offer a pathway to a living wage are recruited and matched with workforce ready candidates. Hbcc focuses on supporting employers with a pipeline of adequate and reliable workforce. A career builder who completes this stage must agree to the hope builder pledge and renew their commitment to becoming a hope builder.hope builder: the hope builder stage includes those young adults, who have proven that they have developed the skills needed to remain in a career pathway. Hbcc continues to offer job retention support after a job placement is secured. These young adults join a community of other successful hope builders, who have found and retained a quality job the kind that provides a career pathway and has led to living-wage employment. Hope builders considers six months of retention in a career pathway, with a living-wage salary, to be the ultimate marker of success; research tells us…
$1,443,098 spent37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,887,963.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.2M to $7.5M (+45%).
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 3% · 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 8% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Carlos Gonzalez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $560k → $951k.
14 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $446k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS raised.
From the IRS filings of TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 34% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 38% · 2023 29% — 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
44% of TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
67% of TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Labor$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hope Builders Career Connections · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS?
- TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,163,107 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,903,796). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $10,163,107 in grants to TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,903,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS 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 50 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