California · Nonprofit
UPWARD BOUND HOUSE
UPWARD BOUND HOUSE (California) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,276,569 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($614,396). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Upward Bound House does
Mission
Our mission is to eliminate homelessness among families with children in our community by providing housing, supportive services, and advocacy. Our central goal is to empower every homeless family, regardless of their background and barriers, to achieve self-sufficiency and lead productive, fulfilling lives. We seek to accomplish this goal through a comprehensive range of services tailored to individual needs, with a focus on promoting the objectives of family strengthening, educational achievement, gainful employment, and permanent housing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Permanent housing - south los angeles housing stability program - the program consists of emergency shelter (4 facilities in south la) and rapid rehousing (rrh) services for homeless families. The organization operates its rrh services from offices located within the compton unified school district and the first united methodist church of compton. The 4 emergency shelters offer 24-hour crisis housing, and wraparound services, for up to 4 to 5 months per family. Rrh moves homeless families from shelters into permanent housing as quickly as possible by providing proactive landlord outreach and housing search assistance, coupled with individualized financial assistance (e.g. Security deposits, short-term rent subsidies). Once in housing, families participate in time-limited, intensive, in-home services designed to address parent, child and family barriers to housing and school stability, economic security and overall well-being. The organization closely collaborates with the spa 6 family solutions center operated by ssg/hopics to accept referrals and coordinate services.
$5,440,544 spent61% of program spendingInterim housing - in 2024, the organization served 450 families (516 adults and 855 children). Of the 240 families who exited the organization's programs, 83% moved to permanent housing and 30% increased their income through employment. Westside housing stability program - the program consists of family place (santa monica), a transitional housing facility (21 one-bedroom apartments) offering psychosocial and mental health services to homeless families for up to 9 months, and family shelter (culver city), an emergency shelter (18-studio units) offering comprehensive services to families for up to 4 or 5 months.
$3,456,524 spent$129,454 earned by the program39% of program spendingHealth & wellness - wellness and farm program - the farm program, located in santa monica, provides and environment for parents and children to learn how to grow and prepare their own food through fun, interactive workshops and hands-on instruction, with the goal of increasing food security and promoting healthy eating habits. Healthy living program - the program uses an urban farm (owned by the organization) as a therapeutic outlet to teach life skills, provide job training, and build client confidence and self-esteem. Parent and their child(ren), depending on age, participate in the selection, planting, care and cultivation of crops as well as classes in nutrition, cooking and healthy living.
$26,691 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,923,759.
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 $9.1M to $11M (+17%).
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 64% · 2018 80% · 2019 61% · 2020 61% · 2021 78% · 2022 75% · 2023 76% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UPWARD BOUND HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Christine Mirasy-Glasco
CEO & president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $505k → $969k.
15 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 UPWARD BOUND HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 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
UPWARD BOUND HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
49% 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 UPWARD BOUND HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 18% · 2019 20% · 2020 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 12% · 2023 13% — 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
43% of UPWARD BOUND HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
86% of UPWARD BOUND HOUSE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
UPWARD BOUND HOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 612 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 612 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UPWARD BOUND HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4M
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 UPWARD BOUND HOUSE
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
91% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Upward Bound Senior Villa Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPWARD BOUND HOUSE: 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 UPWARD BOUND HOUSE?
- UPWARD BOUND HOUSE (California) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,276,569 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($614,396). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPWARD BOUND HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $6,276,569 in grants to UPWARD BOUND HOUSE, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPWARD BOUND HOUSE?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $614,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPWARD BOUND HOUSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 91 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing