About Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to people impacted by gang involvement and incarceration through job training, mental health and legal services, education, and social enterprises that help participants rebuild their lives.
Focus Areas
workforce developmentyouth re-entry and re-entry servicesmental healthsubstance abuse supportlegal serviceseducationsocial enterprises (bakery, cafe, catering, recycling, retail, etc.)tattoo removal
Who They Fund
kinship caregivers (relatives or fictive kin)children placed with kingrandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren
Funding Style
About Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries’ recent giving is dominated by a Kinship Grant Program, with three large grants to Homeboy Services Inc. in Los Angeles across 2023, 2024, and 2025. That pattern points to a funder that supports its own kinship-focused service work through substantial annual awards rather than a wide spread of unrelated grants. The organization also serves people impacted by gang involvement and incarceration through job training, mental health and legal services, education, and social enterprises, so its grantmaking sits alongside a broader direct-service model. The recent grants show a clear relationship between the funder and the recipient entity: Homeboy Services Inc. received the top three awards in consecutive years, all tied to the same program name. For a nonprofit researcher, that makes Homeboy Industries notable as a locally focused funder with a concentrated, multi-year funding pattern and an emphasis on kinship care support, family strengthening, and placement stability within the Los Angeles service ecosystem.
What Homeboy Industries Funds
The clearest cause area in the recent data is kinship care. Homeboy Industries gave $8,787,797 in 2025 to Homeboy Services Inc. for the Kinship Grant Program, showing a program-specific investment in relatives and fictive kin who are raising children. Their stated topic taxonomy also points to child welfare and placement stability, along with caregiver financial assistance and respite. That aligns with support for kinship caregivers, children placed with kin, grandparents, and other relatives raising grandchildren. Beyond kinship work, the foundation’s existing focus areas include workforce development, youth re-entry and re-entry services, mental health, substance abuse support, legal services, education, social enterprises, and tattoo removal. Those areas describe a service model built around stabilization and long-term rebuilding rather than a single-issue grant strategy.
How Homeboy Industries Gives
Homeboy Industries makes unusually large grants: the typical award sits near $7.8 million, with p25 at $7,598,774, median at $7,794,736, and p75 at $7,990,697. The recent record also suggests a recurring annual pattern, with the same recipient and program funded in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The foundation is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it does not fund individuals or make program-related investments. Its grantmaking is local, and the available 990-year record runs through 2025.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$8.8M
Total Assets
$110M
Total Revenue
$47M
Total Expenses
$41.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7.6M and $8M, with a median of $7.8M.
25th Percentile
$7.6M
Median
$7.8M
75th Percentile
$8M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 100% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
THOMAS VAZZO
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