Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Housing Assistance Council
The exempt purpose is to improve housing conditions for the rural poor, with emphasis on the poorest of the poor in the most rural places. HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL (hac) provides below-market financing for affordable housing and community development, technical assistance and training, research and information, and policy formulation…
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $24,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $540,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $73M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Housing Assistance Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $2.2M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $410k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.9M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $435k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $304k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $539k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $72k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $204k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corp | $567,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Chicago Title Company | $540,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Self-Help Enterprises | $391,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Rural Housing Development Corporation | $229,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Housing Development Alliance Inc | $207,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Tunica County Community Development Coalition Inc | $203,004 | 1 | 25% |
| Creative Compassion Inc | $154,461 | 5 | 17% |
| People's Self Help Housing Corp | $148,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Concepts Inc | $135,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Universal Housing Development Corporatio | $132,108 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 100 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Housing Assistance Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Rebuilding Together Inc · Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc · BBVA Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Opportunity Finance Network · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
How this is measured
About Housing Assistance Council
- How much does Housing Assistance Council give?
- Housing Assistance Council reported 41 itemized grants totaling $2,235,966, out of $2,643,776 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Housing Assistance Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (73%), Community Improvement (11%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Housing Assistance Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corp ($567k), Chicago Title Company ($540k), Self-Help Enterprises ($392k).
- Does Housing Assistance Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Housing Assistance Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Community Partners Inc, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Habitat for Humanity International Inc.
- Where is Housing Assistance Council based?
- Housing Assistance Council is based in DC.
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