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Housing California Inc

The organization is based in sacramento, california, and brings together a diverse, cross-sector network to prevent and end homelessness, increase the supply of safe, stable, affordable homes, and reverse the legacy of racial and economic injustice working to create a california with homes, health, and prosperity for all in thriving,…

$555k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192023.

Housing & Shelter$1.4MOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
San Diego Housing Federation$125,000
CCRH$125,000
SCANPH$125,000
East Bay Housing Organization$60,000
Kennedy Commission$60,000
Mutual Housing California$60,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $100k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Various Organizations: $100k → 12%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23
Housing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +36%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $275k · revenue +13%
  • CC
    California Coalition for Rural Housing Project
    3× · 2019–2023 · $275k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • HC
    HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +0%

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
Council of Community Housing Organizations

To provide technical assistance in affordable housing development to community based housing providers

2
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
3
Habitat for Humanity of California Inc

habitat for humanity california is a coalition of habitat for humanity affiliates working across the state providing, permanent, affordable homeownership housing for working families, by building and preserving homes. habitat for…

4
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
5
Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition

BAHAC is a 501c4 that advocates for more housing at all levels of affordability at the state and local level.

Housing & Shelter
6
Housing Affordability Institute
Housing & Shelter
7
Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County

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

Housing & Shelter
8
Abundant Housing La

To encourage, advocate for, and support the creation of an equitable and environmentally sustainable region where all current and future Angelenos can afford to live, including through legislation, regulations, and government programs.

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
National Housing and Community Development Law Project

The Organization is a national housing and legal advocacy center. Its mission is to advance housing justice for poor people by: increasing and preserving the supply of decent, affordable housing; improving existing housing conditions,…

Crime & Legal
11
Eastern Sierra Community Housing

Eastern Sierra Community Housing (ESCH), has spearheaded a workforce housing development program targeted at tackling one of the toughest issues facing Sierra communities today. The private, not-for-profit, organization was established in…

Housing & Shelter
12
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing California Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

California Coalition for Rural Housing Project — $275,000 · Housing & ShelterCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing ProjectEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS — $135,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONSMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION — $135,000 · Housing & ShelterMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SAC…THE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $135,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE KENNEDY COMMISSIONSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC — $325,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-…Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION — $275,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO HOUSING F…HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 · Human Services
Housing & Shelter$680,000Other$575,000Education$275,000Human Services$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC — $325,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION — $275,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project — $275,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS — $135,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION — $135,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $135,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Local Initiatives Support CorporationNY17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The San Francisco Foundation · Merritt Community Capital Corporation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Community Economics Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Housing California 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
2021222324
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    2report 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, FY2024

    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.

    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 8 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $13k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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