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National Low Income Housing Coalition
The NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION (nlihc) is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy to ensure the lowest-income people have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $1,439,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,844,927 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $405,927 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER | $80,000 |
| WISCONSIN BALANCE OF STATE CONTINUUM OF CARE INC | $80,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $80,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION OF ALABAMA | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC | $80,000 |
| HOMELESS AND HOUSING COALITION OF KENTUCKY | $80,000 |
| STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC | $80,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPS | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO | $50,000 |
| MARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY | $50,000 |
| PROSPERITY INDIANA | $50,000 |
| KENTUCKY EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER | $50,000 |
| BLACK CLERGY COLLABORATIVE OF MEMPHIS | $50,000 |
| MICHIGAN COALITION AGAINST HOMELESSNESS | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of National Low Income Housing Coalition’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCOALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO6× · 2018–2024 · $514k · revenue +105%
- GAGEORGIA ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $483k · revenue +50% · 30% of their budget
- JIJANNUS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $460k · revenue +78%
Funded once
CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -48%- MWMiami Workers Center Incone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue -30%
- VAVERMONT AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
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…
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
To promote the rights of renters to safe, accessible, and affordable housing on a non-discriminatory basis through education, outreach, supportive services, advocacy, and legal representation.
To advance the creation of strong, sustainable and affordable communities through advocacy, professional development, and empowerment of our diverse members.
Housing oregon strengthens the collective voice and capacity of mission-driven organizations that share a commitment to housing justice. through our statewide network, we build the affordable housing sector by offering education, resource…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.
Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.
To provide technical assistance in affordable housing development to community based housing providers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coalition to End Hom and the most unlike its peers is American Academy of Pediatrics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
127 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 127 of the 134 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds JANNUS INC ↗
- Who funds Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness ↗
- Who funds INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION AGAINST HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS AND HOUSING COALITION OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ALLIANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UTAH HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Action Illinois ↗
- Who funds HOUSING NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance ↗
- Who funds HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS NETWORK OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Coalition for the Homeless ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COALITION OF HOUSING &NEIGHBORHOOD GROWTH FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATEWIDE HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds Washington Low Income Housing Alliance ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HOUSING DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · New Venture Fund · Equal Justice Works · Center for Responsible Lending · Td Charitable Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation
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 National Low Income Housing Coalition 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Housing Alliance Delaware — 74% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Neighborhood Partnerships Inc — 40% of income from government
- Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey Inc — 19% of income from government
- Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
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.