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Research Institute for Housing America Trust Fund

The mission of the research institute for housing america is to promote and disseminate knowledge on the functioning, structure, and future of mortgage markets.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$875kSocial Science$179kHousing & Shelter$116kPublic Benefit$40kHealth$33kEmployment$21kCommunity Improvement$17kEnvironment$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $195,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $208,152 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,152 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION$125,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$40,000
JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY$10,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$10,000
PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%CERES INC: $9k → 16%MILLMAN INC: $9k → 10%ANDREW DAVIDSON & CO INC: $9k → 17%R STREET INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%WE UPJOHN INSTITUTE EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH PROJECT: $21k → 12%THE AMERICAN REAL ESTATE AND URBAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 15%Eric Scharnhorst LLC: $23k → 9%RISK SPAN INC: $9k → 7%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $24k → 19%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%R STREET INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%R STREET INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%HUDSON INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%JOHN WEICHER HUDSON INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $125k → 14%JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIESHARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%Joint Center for Housing StudiesHarvard University: $8k → 8%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $10k → 14%PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $10k → 14%R Street Institute: $10k → 14%PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $10k → 14%American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10k → 14%PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $10k → 14%R STREET INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+59%

Still filing today

100%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Social ScienceEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +0%
  • RS
    R STREET INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +80%
  • HI
    Hudson Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • ES
    Eric Scharnhorst LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • WE
    W E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +59%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
9
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

—
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $825,000 · OtherMORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONHudson Institute Inc: $45,000 · Other+5 more: $73,500 · Other+5 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $78,000 · EducationPresident and …R STREET INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationR STREET INSTI…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNI…AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $80,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENT…PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $60,000 · Social SciencePETER G PETE…W E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATION: $20,700 · EmploymentTHE AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & URBAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION: $16,500 · Community ImprovementCERES INC: $9,000 · Environment
Other$943,500Education$168,000Social Science$140,000Employment$20,700Community Improvement$16,500Environment$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $825,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $78,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetW E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATION: $20,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & URBAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCERES INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Research Institute for Housing America Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Research Institute for Housing America Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
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Find your warmest path to Research Institute for Housing America Trust Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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