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Midpen Housing Corporation

In conjunction with related organizations, MIDPEN HOUSING CORPORATION's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing of high quality to those in need; to establish stability and opportunity in the lives of residents; and to foster diverse communities that allow people from all ethnic, social and economic backgrounds to live in dignity,…

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Housing & Shelter$22MCommunity Improvement$2.2MPublic Benefit$235k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $298k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$359M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID-PENINSULA BAKER PARK INC$2,431,328
MID-PENINSULA PICKERING INC$351,830
MP 21 SOLEDAD STREET LP$152,244
MIDPEN RESIDENT SERVICES CORPORATION$85,480
MIDPEN RESIDENT SERVICES CORPORATION$60,000
NON PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS OF NORTHERN CA$18,000
HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO$12,300
SVHOME$10,000
NEW WAY HOMES INC$10,000
EASY BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS$7,750
CALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM$7,500
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 (FY21–24, $46k) 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%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $14k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $6k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $6k → 12%NEW WAY HOMES INC: $10k → 13%NEW WAY HOMES INC: $10k → 13%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 11 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$20M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+270%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman 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

  • MR
    MIDPEN RESIDENT SERVICES CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +109% · 50% of their budget
  • MH
    MID-PENINSULA HALF MOON BAY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +343% · 58% of their budget
  • NH
    NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • CR
    COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $2.2M
  • 5A
    5TH AND MENDOCINO PARTNERS OWNER LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.6M
  • MP
    MP PICKERING INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $235k

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
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
2
Mutual Housing Management

To be an exceptional steward of the portfolio of multifamily housing owned by mutual housing california and other 501(c)(3) entities (or limited partnerships in which a 501(c)(3) entity is a general partner) to support long-term…

Housing & Shelter
3
Mutual Housing California Formerly Known As Sacramento Mutual Housing Association

The mission of mutual housing california is to develop, manage, and support sustainable affordable housing where residents are partners in advancing equitable communities.

Housing & Shelter
4
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
5
Midpen Housing Corporation

In conjunction with related organizations, midpen housing corporation's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing of high quality to those in need; to establish stability and opportunity in the lives of residents; and to foster…

Housing & Shelter
6
Hip Housing Development Corporation

To alleviate and improve the housing condition of the needy, physically or mentally handicapped, elderly persons and others whose housing needs are not being adequately met in San Mateo County, CA.

Housing & Shelter
7
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
8
Sacramento Neighborhood Housing Services Inc

To improve and restore district-wide neighborhoods for the benefit of the residents.

Housing & Shelter
9
Howard Street Development Corporation

To provide housing for low income persons, and to support tenderloin neighborhood development corporation in carrying out its purpose.

Housing & Shelter
10
Sfha Housing Corporation Mamadou Gning

To work alongside the housing authority of the city and county of san francisco to provide low-income housing.

Housing & Shelter
11
Inland Socal Housing Collective

Creating solutions to improve housing outcomes for renters, homebuyers, homeowners, and those experiencing homelessness through education, advocacy and access to resources in the inland socal region.

Housing & Shelter
12
Heritage Housing Partners

To promote historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization by developing, owning, and operating rental or for sale low-income housing property.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Peninsula Scotts Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Committee to Save Caltrain Yes on Measure Rr. 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

21 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIDPEN RESIDENT SERVICES CORPORATION — $11,027,701 · Housing & ShelterMIDPEN RESIDENT SERVICES CORPORATIONMID-PENINSULA HALF MOON BAY INC — $3,325,752 · Housing & ShelterMID-PENINSULA HALF MOON BAY INC+7 more — $187,729 · Housing & ShelterMID-PENINSULA BAKER PARK INC — $3,677,864 · OtherMID-PENINSULA BAKER PARK INCCOMMUNITY REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORP — $2,153,300 · OtherCOMMUNITY REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPMID-PENINSULA PICKERING INC — $1,951,830 · OtherMID-PENINSULA PICKERING INC5TH AND MENDOCINO PARTNERS OWNER LLC — $1,573,988 · Other5TH AND MENDOCINO PARTNERS OWNER LLC+6 more — $443,355 · OtherHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $25,500 · Human ServicesNEW WAY HOMES INC — $20,000 · Human Services
Housing & Shelter$14,541,182Other$9,800,337Human Services$45,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIDPEN RESIDENT SERVICES CORPORATION — $11,027,701 over 8y, 50% of budgetMID-PENINSULA BAKER PARK INC — $3,677,864 over 3y, 62% of budgetMID-PENINSULA HALF MOON BAY INC — $3,325,752 over 2y, 58% of budgetMID-PENINSULA PICKERING INC — $1,951,830 over 2y, 48% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $58,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY — $39,200 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ECONOMICS INC — $29,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMID-PENINSULA THE FARM INC — $25,739 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMID-PENINSULA SCOTTS VALLEY INC — $23,509 over 1y, 26% of budgetNEW WAY HOMES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMID PENINSULA SEVEN TREES INC — $12,270 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSV HOME — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

Eden Housing IncCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eden Housing Inc · Sunlight Giving · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · First Community Housing · Merritt Community Capital Corporation · Tipping Point Community · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Midpen Housing Corporation 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Midpen Housing Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Midpen Housing Corporation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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