THE BOMA PROJECT INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q31

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 1865

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• THE RURAL ENTREPRENEUR ACCESS PROJECT ("REAP") IS AN INNOVATIVE, DATA DRIVEN, HIGH-IMPACT, GENDER FOCUSED POVERTY GRADUATION PROGRAM THAT TARGETS ULTRA-POOR WOMEN AT THE EPICENTER OF EXTREME POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE TRUE "LAST MILE" OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL-ISOLATION. THROUGH A TWO-YEAR PROCESS OF SEQUENCED INTERVENTIONS - INCLUDING A CASH TRANSFER TO START A SMALL BUSINESS, FINANCIAL AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING, MENTORING, AND A SAVINGS PROGRAM - REAP HELPS THE POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE WOMEN ESTABLISH SAVINGS TO BUILD THEIR RESILIENCE TO SHOCKS AND LIFT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES OUT OF EXTREME POVERTY. ON AVERAGE, 96% OF WOMEN "GRADUATE" FROM EXTREME POVERTY BASED ON BOMA'S STRICT CRITERIA, MEANING THEY HAVE FOOD FOR THEIR CHILDREN, DIVERSIFIED INCOME AND SAVINGS, AND THE ABILITY TO PAY FOR LIFE-CHANGING RESOURCES LIKE EDUCATION AND MEDICAL CARE.

  Expenses $8,240,943 · Grants $7,780,620

• TECHNICAL ADVISORY - AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER AND TECHNICAL ADVISOR TO NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, BOMA LEVERAGES ITS EXPERTISE AND CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF IMPACT TO EMBED THE GRADUATION APPROACH INTO HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SYSTEMS IN FRAGILE STATES AND REGIONS. AS A TECHNICAL ADVISOR TO GOVERNMENTS, BOMA SUPPORTS THE ACTIVITIES AND PROCESSES THAT WILL LEAD TO THE ADOPTION OF THE GRADUATION APPROACH INTO SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS, BEGINNING WITH KENYA.

  Expenses $496,774 · Grants $449,741

• EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY - BOMA HAS A STRONG COMMITMENT TO EXPAND THE KNOWLEDGE OF POVERTY GRADUATION, LIVELIHOODS, GENDER PROGRAMMING, FINANCIAL INCLUSION, AND SAVINGS MODELS BY COLLABORATING WITH RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND PARTNERS THAT CAN HELP US ADVANCE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES IN THE ARID LANDS OF AFRICA. BOMA CONTINUES TO BRING THE ISSUES OF THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN FORGOTTEN AREAS INTO GLOBAL DEBATE THROUGH PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. IN ADDITION, BOMA CONDUCTS OUTREACH WITH GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN THE POVERTY GRADUATION FIELD BY HOSTING POVERTY GRADUATION LEARNING EVENTS, FIELD VISITS, AND BRIEFINGS FOR GOVERNMENT DELEGATIONS, SUCH AS FOR KENYA, ETHIOPIA AND SUDAN, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN TESTING BOMA'S MODEL IN THEIR COUNTRIES.

  Expenses $164,711 · Grants $532

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $7,251,612

  Expenses

  $10,173,810

  Contributions

  $7,025,803

  Grants paid

  $8,203,214

• 2024

  Revenue

  $10,685,925

  Expenses

  $10,333,478

  Contributions

  $10,362,266

  Grants paid

  $7,864,666

• 2023

  Revenue

  $12,150,218

  Expenses

  $13,842,428

  Contributions

  $11,933,112

  Grants paid

  $11,670,968

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,399,712

  Expenses

  $4,365,147

  Contributions

  $1,374,755

  Grants paid

  $3,699,403

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,654,473

  Expenses

  $9,795,518

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,630,216

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,093,429

  Expenses

  $4,972,113

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,762,735

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,768,415

  Expenses

  $3,253,419

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,708,179

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,880,945

  Expenses

  $4,189,822

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,202,362

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,163,127

  Expenses

  $3,052,408

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,568,769

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,253,892

  Expenses

  $2,058,322

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,247,181

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,978,743

  Expenses

  $1,435,907

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,598,791

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,320,485

  Expenses

  $876,356

  Assets (EOY)

  $701,368

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $662,569

  Assets (EOY)

  $211,896

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $438,927

  Assets (EOY)

  $174,866

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2022 · INTERNATIONAL

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $197,730

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $160,048

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $73,975

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• UNFCU FOUNDATION INC

  $50,000

  2022 · RURAL ENTREPRENEUR ACCESS PROJECT IN KENYA

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $38,500

  2023 · EDUCATION

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $33,500

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL

• UNFCU FOUNDATION INC

  $25,000

  2023 · RURAL ENTREPRENEUR ACCESS PROJECT IN KENYA

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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