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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 it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
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

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +9%
  • 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%
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
Council of Community Housing Organizations

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

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing California Inc; 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 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. 7 of the 8 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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

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 Housing California Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Housing California Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    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, 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.

    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 8 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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