Colorado · Nonprofit
BOULDER HOUSING COALITION
BOULDER HOUSING COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,838 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($709,731). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $748k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Boulder Housing Coalition does
Mission
Provide affordable cooperative housing to the people of Colorado's Front Range.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
North Haven Community Ownership LLC owns & manages 2 permanently affordable rental cooperatives in Boulder, Colorado. The majority of the 40 low income residents living in these properties earn below 30% of the area's median income. The houses were purchased with the help of affordable housing grants from the City of Boulder and the County of Boulder. All of the buildings are owned in partnership with Boulder Housing Partners. By state statute, this provides a property tax exemption. North Haven Community Ownership LLC participates in the education programs described under activity 4b, Boulder Housing Coalition.
$371,008 spent$351,301 earned by the program51% of program spendingBoulder Housing Coalition owns & manages 2 permanently affordable rental cooperatives in Boulder, Colorado. The majority of the 25 low income residents living in these properties earn below 30% of the area's median income. The houses were purchased with the help of affordable housing grants from the City of Boulder and the County of Boulder. All of the buildings are owned in partnership with Boulder Housing Partners. By state statute, this provides a property tax exemption. In addition, Boulder Housing Coalition has an education program that offers cooperative living skills, mediation skills, and social justice education. These programs reached 200 people in 2024.On Dec. 6, 2024, BHC received a Denver city grant toward purchase of an additional cooperative mansion in Denver for $1,101,000, plus donated furnishings of $180,000.
$284,465 spent$1,459,356 earned by the program39% of program spendingCatalyst Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project: The decarbonization of the US electricity system is essential to protecting the natural environment, responsibly managing natural resources, and furthering the long-term health and safety of all communities. The PUDL project accelerates the transition away from fossil-fueled electricity systems by publicly providing high quality, actionable data. Since its 2019 release, the PUDL Python package has been downloaded nearly 10,000 times. PUDL has been used by academics, advocates, and energy data practitioners to help inform policy making around how to finance the early retirement of uneconomic coal plants and how to model the transition to a completely decarbonized electric grid. Boulder Housing Coalition served as Catalyst's fiscal sponsor for a 2024 grant of $150,931, of which $74,856 was applied to project costs.
$74,856 spent$150,931 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $730,329.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $7.6M (+68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 67% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 0% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of BOULDER HOUSING COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Sarah Wells
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $160k → $112k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOULDER HOUSING COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOULDER HOUSING COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BOULDER HOUSING COALITION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOULDER HOUSING COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BOULDER HOUSING COALITION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Bhc Community Ownership LLC · disregarded
- North Haven Community Ownership LLC · disregarded
- Chrysalis Community Housing · disregarded
- Masala Community Housing · disregarded
- North Haven Community Housing · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOULDER HOUSING COALITION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOULDER HOUSING COALITION?
- BOULDER HOUSING COALITION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,838 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($709,731). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOULDER HOUSING COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $747,838 in grants to BOULDER HOUSING COALITION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOULDER HOUSING COALITION?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $709,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOULDER HOUSING COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing