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CASITA COALITION

CASITA COALITION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$275k
Net assets
$1.5M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Casita Coalition does

Mission

Casita Coalition removes barriers to middle-scale homes and accessory dwelling units (adu) in california to increase the supply of attainable homes for renters and home buyers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education: 5 guidebooks and handouts published & distributed; 5 webinars presented; 16 presentations by board members; 1 adu education course curriculum developed; 2 adu intensive course cohorts completed with 42% of attendees very low and low income; 4 adu homeowner fairs hosted.

    $687,381 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Policy reform: recommendations provided to local, state and federal agencies in topic areas related to adu & middle housing policy. Middle housing playbook published and distributed to assist in development of effective policies for attainable homes for rental and purchase; advised on statewide policies to remove barriers to more homes; assisted in development of standardized data fields for adus on mls platforms

  3. Sector development/coalition-building; 12 industry roundtables hosted; 4 networking events for peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing hosted; mentored adu and middle housing advocates from cities and states outside california to share lessons learned and speed adoption of policies that encourage production of attainable homes

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $687,381.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 100 ($141k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2022 Revenue 161 ($226k) Expenses 172 ($220k) Net assets 146 ($19k)2023 Revenue 229 ($322k) Expenses 254 ($325k) Net assets 127 ($16k)2024 Revenue 381 ($537k) Expenses 418 ($536k) Net assets 4913 ($631k)2025 Revenue 1015 ($1.4M) Expenses 685 ($878k) Net assets 11352 ($1.5M)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (1015)Expenses (685)Net assets (11352)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $635k to $1.5M (+130%).

$0
$13k
$19k
$16k
$635k
$1.5M
201920212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CASITA COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

’19
$13k
’21
$6k
’22
−$2k
’23
$2k
’24
$551k
’25
13
months of
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.

Chief executive

Noerena Limon

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5131415
Joined·+10+1+4
No longer listed·203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CASITA 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

CASITA COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CASITA COALITION.

55%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

55% of CASITA COALITION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $125k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

WA
MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CASITA COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)78% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CASITA 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 13%Fundraising 9%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASITA 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 CASITA COALITION?
CASITA COALITION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CASITA COALITION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $275,000 in grants to CASITA COALITION.
Who is the largest funder of CASITA COALITION?
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CASITA COALITION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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