How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to housing in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

Who is the largest housing funder in California?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in California, $187M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in California?

$5.2B reached 2,715 housing organizations in California, from 6,175 funders. 73% came from funders also based in California.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · California · Housing

Who funds housing in California

Housing funding in California is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Bridge Housing Corporation leads, and the money reaches 2,715 groups.

$5.2B

granted

2,715

organizations

73%

from in-state

The short version

6,175 funders gave $5.2B to 2,715 housing organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
73% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of housing in California is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $187M.
The housing organization drawing the most is Bridge Housing Corporation, at $143M.

Largest funders of housing in California

The funders giving the most to housing organizations in California, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$187M 2Silicon Valley Community Foundation$151M 3California Community Foundation$145M 4The San Francisco Foundation$144M 5Front Porch Communities and Services$130M 6The Chicago Community Trust$118M 7Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$116M 8Sacramento Steps Forward$94M 9Tipping Point Community$75M 10Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$73M

Housing organizations in California that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

2,705 other housing organizations$4.1B

How to find housing funders in California

1
Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to housing in California are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Community Foundation. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
27% of housing money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in California?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in California, $187M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in California?: $5.2B reached 2,715 housing organizations in California, from 6,175 funders. 73% came from funders also based in California.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.