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Century Housing Corporation

Century housing and its controlled affiliates provide certain business activities and service programs to communities within the state of california.

$204k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$308kEducation$205kYouth Development$60kCommunity Improvement$60kEmployment$43kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $85,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $204,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $119,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$706M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION$25,000
CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$25,000
LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
DOOR OF HOPE$7,500
SHELTER PARTNERSHIP$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $30k → 10%JAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH COUNCIL: $30k → 10%GROWGOOD INC: $10k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $8k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of Century Housing Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 67%.

Century Housing Corporationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 9 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$302k
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24
Housing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VC
    VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +341%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +135%
  • TS
    THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • CV
    CENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +651%
  • CF
    CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +9%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
2
End Homelessness California

To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.

Human Services
3
California Human Development Corporation

California human development is a private, federally recognized 501(c)3 organization and we exist to create paths and opportunities for people to rise above barriers in their pursuit of better lives throughout our northern california…

Human Services
4
United Way Inc

We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.

Philanthropy
5
Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter
6
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
7
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
8
Community Housing Works

Community housingworks ("chw or the organization") is a nonprofit california corporation incorporated on june 20, 1988. chw believes that opportunity begins with a stable home. the organization provides and builds life-changing affordable…

Housing & Shelter
9
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
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10
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
11
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Life Skills Training Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATIONCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing…CENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INCSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INCCOMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION DIGNITY INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $30,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS A…CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $30,000 · EducationCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY …LIFE SKILLS TRAINING CENTER INC: $30,000 · EducationLIFE SKILLS TRAINING CEN…THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE…CENTURY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · EducationCENTURY COMMUNITY CHARTE…SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOLEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation: $30,000 · OtherEL CAMINO COMMUNITY C…CENTURY ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE: $25,000 · OtherCENTURY ACADEMY FOR E…Affordable Housing Now See Schedule O for Full Name: $25,000 · OtherAffordable Housing No…DOOR OF HOPE: $12,500 · OtherDOOR OF HOPETHE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING COR…THE SALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherMEXICAN AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherMEXICAN AMERICAN BAR …AMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FILM FOUNDAT…Larkin Street Youth Services: $30,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Stree…JAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH COUNCIL: $30,000 · Human ServicesJAPANESE COM…THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT…GROWGOOD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGROWGOOD INCCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOALITION…CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropySKID ROW HOUSING TRUST: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,500 · Employment
Housing & Shelter$242,500Education$155,000Other$139,500Human Services$82,500Youth Development$60,000Philanthropy$30,000Employment$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTURY ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAffordable Housing Now See Schedule O for Full Name: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTURY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEXICAN AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROWGOOD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION DIGNITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKID ROW HOUSING TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …Weingart FoundationUnited Way IncThe Ralph M Parsons F…The James Irvine Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The California Endowm…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Ahmanson Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Local Initiatives Sup…Shelter Partnership I…
California Community FoundationCA26.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · United Way Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The California Endowment · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Ahmanson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Shelter Partnership Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Century Housing Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Century Housing Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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