Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC
CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,785,042 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,380,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is education & training in programs for housing affordability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research advocacy and coalition building - chapa works to increase resources and programs for affordable housing on the state and federal levels. The organization works collaboratively with groups of individuals concerned with housing and community development. Under this program area, chapa manages the new england network, which brings together housing advocates from all six new england states.
$1,069,667 spent31% of program spendingHousing counseling and education programs - chapa manages several programs to increase homeownership opportunities for low-income households. These include: a homeownership counseling grant program under a contract with the u.s. Department of housing and urban development ("hud") and the massachusetts homeownership collaborative, which provides technical assistance and training to home buyer counseling agencies.
$1,404,158 spent$294,870 earned by the program40% of program spendingNew lease for homeless families - chapa serves as the fiscal sponsor for new lease for homeless families ("nl"). The nl program works collaboratively with state agencies, quasipublic organizations, affordable housing providers and nonprofit organizations to reduce homelessness in the commonwealth of massachusetts.
$569,545 spent16% of program spendingTraining and education - chapa acts as an information clearinghouse for the affordable housing and planning community. The organization maintains a web page with monthly updates and sends out regular newsletters with updates on state and federal housing policy. The organization also holds conferences and forums to keep affordable housing stakeholders informed of new programs, developments and/or changes in public policies.
$373,521 spent$956,569 earned by the program11% of program spendingMassaccess registry - funded by massachusetts rehabilitation commission and managed by chapa, the massachusetts accessible housing registry is a database of accessible units throughout massachusetts that helps to match people with disabilities with vacant apartments.
$75,658 spent2% of program spendingMassachusetts smart growth alliance - chapa serves as the fiscal sponsor for the massachusetts smart growth alliance ("msga"). Msga is made up of leading nonprofit organizations that work together to promote state policies that foster smart growth planning and development. The activity for this program became stagnant during a prior year, however, chapa remains the fiscal sponsor and the net assets remain restricted for msga's purposes.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,492,549.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.0M to $6.1M (+20%).
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 28% · 2018 38% · 2019 45% · 2020 60% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 23% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC’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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $433k → $1.1M.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
71% 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 CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 62% · 2019 42% · 2020 23% · 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
74% of CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.8M
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 CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC: 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 CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC?
- CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,785,042 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,380,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,785,042 in grants to CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,380,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 37 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