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Affordable Housing Access Inc

To alleviate the critical shortage of affordable housing opportunities for low moderate income, handicapped and elderly persons.

$862k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$228k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$2.4MHuman Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$835kFood & Nutrition$329kYouth Development$253kEducation$134kHealth$97kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $768,125 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $861,953 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,828 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $309k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $460k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ACCESS INC$227,622
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC$132,000
MIRACLE MESSAGES$100,000
THE LITERACY PROJECT$40,750
BRACKEN'S KITCHEN$40,253
WISEPLACE$35,500
PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC$25,000
PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE$25,000
STANDUP FOR KIDS ORANGE COUNTY$25,000
BEACH CITIES INTERFAITH SERVICES INC$25,000
THE HEARTWAY$21,000
THOMAS HOUSE FAMILY SHELTER$21,000
CREATIVE WOMEN OF PINNACLE PEAK$10,000
CASA TERESA$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HUNTINGTON VALLEY$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $100k → 10%The Teen Project Inc: $10k → 14%EMPOWER YOLO: $10k → 16%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $25k → 10%EMPOWER YOLO: $10k → 16%Empower YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOWER YOLO: $10k → 16%Empower YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOWER YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOWER YOLO: $10k → 16%Empower YOLO: $8k → 16%WISEPLACE: $43k → 10%WISEPLACE: $36k → 10%WISEPLACE: $23k → 10%WISEPLACE: $22k → 10%WISEPlace: $15k → 10%WISEPlace: $14k → 10%WISEPLACE: $12k → 10%WISEPlace: $10k → 10%Community Engagement Inc: $176k → 10%Community Engagement Inc: $165k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $165k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $137k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $133k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $132k → 10%Community Engagement Inc: $120k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $119k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%HART COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $50k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $50k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 22 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
27

Total granted

$5.3M
$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    Project Access Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +186%
  • BK
    Brackens Kitchen Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +943%
  • TH
    THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $196k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • OF
    Our Fathers Table
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · 48% of their budget
  • HC
    HART COMMUNITY HOMES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • HI
    HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +393%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
2
Colette's Children's Home Inc

Colettes childrens home provides housing and supportive services to homeless women and children with nowhere to turn. we work to remove the barriers that cause displacement and provide the means for transition from homelessness to stable…

Housing & Shelter
3
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
4
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
5
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
6
Temporary Shelter Inc

The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.

Housing & Shelter
7
Raphael House of San Francisco Inc

The mission of raphael house is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness strengthen family bonds by achieving stable housing and financial independence.

Human Services
8
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
9
Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc

Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…

Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
11
House of Ruth Inc

House of ruth is dedicated to preventing domestic violence and ensuring the safety and well-being of those impacted.

Human Services
12
Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor

The mission of Laurel House (dba Hope Harbor) is providing a home for teens in crisis, transforming lives, and strengthening families. Laurel House has the only long-term youth shelters in Orange County, CA for runaway, homeless and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc and the most unlike its peers is The Heartway Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Affordable HousingHousing & Food AssistanceSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…Developmental Disabilities …Family Philanthropic Founda…Policy Research and AdvocacyCharter and Independent Sch…Professional & Industry Ass…Local Business Chambers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%48%20–35yr10%11%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
15%
15,703/103,302

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Project Access Inc — $2,445,026 · Community ImprovementProject Access Inc+1 more — $64,250 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC — $1,145,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCWISEPLACE — $174,000 · Human ServicesWISEPLACEMIRACLE MESSAGES — $125,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE MESSAGESEmpower Yolo Inc — $78,000 · Human ServicesPRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC — $75,000 · Human Services+8 more — $295,000 · Human Services+8 moreBrackens Kitchen Inc — $273,929 · OtherBrackens Kitchen In…THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER — $195,820 · OtherTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPOR…StandUp for Kids — $105,000 · OtherStandUp for KidsPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE — $75,000 · OtherPATHWAYS TO INDEPEN…The Heartway Inc — $50,000 · OtherHOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $50,000 · Other+19 more — $259,500 · Other+19 moreBoys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley — $108,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentKINGDOM DEVELOPMENT INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterAcacia Network Housing Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyFeeding The Soul Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCreative Women of Pinnacle Peak Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyONEOC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyOur Fathers Table — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$2,509,276Human Services$1,892,000Other$1,009,249Youth Development$138,000Housing & Shelter$95,000Philanthropy$71,000Food & Nutrition$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetProject Access Inc — $2,445,026 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC — $1,145,000 over 8y, 94% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc — $273,929 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER — $195,820 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetWISEPLACE — $174,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMIRACLE MESSAGES — $125,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley — $108,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetStandUp for Kids — $105,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEmpower Yolo Inc — $78,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKINGDOM DEVELOPMENT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT — $64,250 over 3y, 10% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOur Fathers Table — $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetHART COMMUNITY HOMES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Heartway Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetHOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCASA TERESA INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEKAB BE BIBLIOTECA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACH CITIES INTERFAITH SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetFRIENDLY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding The Soul Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMOMS ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCreative Women of Pinnacle Peak Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetNIGHT MINISTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHeritage Future — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAcacia Network Housing Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEOC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE — $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOODORANGE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…Sisters of St Joseph …Samueli FoundationO L Halsell FoundationThe Crean FoundationThe Devto Support Fou…Farmers & Merchants B…Edwards Lifesciences …Weingart FoundationGlen and Dorothy Stil…Opus Community Founda…Decorative Arts Socie…
Orange County Community FoundationCA53.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Samueli Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Crean Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Opus Community Foundation · Decorative Arts Society

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Affordable Housing Access Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to Affordable Housing Access Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Affordable Housing Access Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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