Ohio · Nonprofit
CHN HOUSING PARTNERS
CHN HOUSING PARTNERS (Ohio) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,323,399 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,532,500). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Chn Housing Partners does
Mission
Chn's mission is to leverage the power of affordable housing to improve lives and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing development, property management & sales:chn is a seasoned affordable housing developer and the nation's largest single-family developer using low income housing tax credits through our nationally recognized lease purchase program. We develop housing across asset classes and populations using mixed funding sources in ohio, southeast michigan, western new york and western pennsylvania. We partner with sister nonprofits and public entities to implement neighborhood strategies. Affordability, sustainability and homeownership are our core principles. In 2024, chn started or completed construction on 296 affordable housing units and sold 53 homes to low-income families who could not otherwise achieve homeownership through our lease purchase program. Chn served 113 homeowners with the single family preservation program.
$27,782,053 spent$18,573,078 earned by the program56% of program spendingEnergy conservation & weatherization:through decades-long partnerships with utility companies and public agencies, chn has become one of northeast ohio's largest energy conservation and weatherization providers. Currently, we provide nearly $20 million in energy-efficient products and services annually (including weatherization and electric, water, and sewer conservation) to help make homes safer and more affordable. Reducing the cost of utilities and, by extension, the consumption of energy and the resulting carbon footprint of thousands of lmi residents each year, is a high priority and long- term strategic focus of chn. To move the needle in this area, chn completes thousands of energy conservation jobs for low- to moderate-income (lmi) households annually. This includes the removal and replacement of hvac to increase energy efficiency and to both reduce the volume of particulates in and improve the quality of the air in people's homes. The work also includes home insulation and other weatherization measures such as weather stripping, caulk, air sealing, and energy conservation measures including light bulb instillation, meter of refrigerator and/or freezer, replacement of high…
$15,867,438 spent$78,364 earned by the program32% of program spendingTraining & education:chn operates one of the region's higher-capacity community resource centers, teaching financial and digital literacy, enhancing employment skills, and preparing clients to purchase and maintain their homes through our financial mobility program. Our financial mobility counselors are certified and hud-approved and follow the national standards for homeownership counseling. In 2024, 4,888 individuals received housing counseling and education through chn. 203 lease purchase residents received financial counseling and coaching to improve their financial health, which include increasing savings, improving credit scores, and building asset products. Another 528 households that were either at risk of or currently in property tax foreclosure were brought current on their property taxes. Also in 2024, chn administered utility assistance programs that processed 26,897 cases.
$5,903,308 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,552,799.
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 2021 to 2022, from $74M to $94M (+27%).
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 30% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 33% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 35% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of CHN HOUSING PARTNERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kevin J Nowak
President and CEO
Board chair
Chris Warren
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $924k → $4.7M.
9 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CHN HOUSING PARTNERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
CHN HOUSING PARTNERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 CHN HOUSING PARTNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 28% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
59% of CHN HOUSING PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CHN HOUSING PARTNERS draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHN HOUSING PARTNERS is better cushioned than half of the 818 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CHN HOUSING PARTNERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.9M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$3.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHN HOUSING PARTNERS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 58 related entities
- Chn Year 16 Initiatives LLC · disregarded
- Chn Affordable Housing Services LLC · disregarded
- Maple Park Place LLC · disregarded
- Nhi Inc · exempt
- Chn Housing Capital · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS?
- CHN HOUSING PARTNERS (Ohio) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,323,399 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,532,500). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHN HOUSING PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $20,323,399 in grants to CHN HOUSING PARTNERS, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHN HOUSING PARTNERS?
- THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,532,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHN HOUSING PARTNERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing