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Community Economics Inc

Community economics, inc.'s mission is to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing serving the lowest income households.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$718k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,330 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,830 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.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING CALIFORNIA$7,500
NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $43k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $30k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $25k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $20k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $19k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $18k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $18k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $8k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $8k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 5 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +181% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$680k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+181%
-21%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • NH
    NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +433%
  • HC
    HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +181%
  • CC
    California Coalition for Rural Housing Project
    7× · 2017–2023 · $122k · revenue +205%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +47%
  • CH
    California Homeless and Housing Coalition Action Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • ON
    OAKLAND NEIGHBORHOOD HSG & SAFE STREET
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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
Californians to Stop Higher Property Taxes

To educate the public and policy makers about the history and purpose of California's property tax law.

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2
Pacific Housing Association
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3
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
5
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.

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6
California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
Education
7
Sacramento Housing Alliance

Sacramento Housing Alliance advocates for safe stable accessible and affordable homes for homeless and lower income people in healthy communities through education leadership and policy change.

Unclassified
8
Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County

To work with communities and their leaders to produce and preserve quality affordable homes.

Housing & Shelter
9
California Housing Defense Fund

CalHDF's purpose is to make housing more affordable and accessible. CalHDF will advance its mission through activities such as fostering housing policy dialogue, conducting research and supporting pro housing litigation.

Civil Rights
10
County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California

Advocacy and public policy development for public behavioral health systems.

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11
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
12
California Yimby

To empower Californians with the knowledge and tools to advocate for more housing and make our state affordable and accessible for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Schools and Communities First. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $272,250 · Housing & ShelterNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIACalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project: $122,000 · Housing & ShelterCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing ProjectEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS: $48,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $188,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING CALIFORNIA INCSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $50,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC: $21,000 · OtherCalifornia Homeless and Housing Coalition Action Fund: $10,000 · OtherOAKLAND NEIGHBORHOOD HSG & SAFE STREET: $7,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR AN AFFORDABLE & RESILENT BERKELEY: $7,000 · Other
Housing & Shelter$447,250Human Services$188,000Civil Rights$50,000Other$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $272,250 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $188,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project: $122,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS: $48,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC: $21,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Sunlight GivingMerritt Community Cap…Public Health Institu…The James Irvine Foun…Local Initiatives Sup…AARPJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Sunlight GivingCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sunlight Giving · Merritt Community Capital Corporation · Public Health Institute · The James Irvine Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · AARP · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Community Economics Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Economics Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Community Economics Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Community Economics 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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