California · Nonprofit
Coalition On Homelessness
Coalition On Homelessness (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,182,825 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($863,335). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Coalition On Homelessness does
Mission
We work to organize homeless people and front-line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness while protecting the civil and human rights of those forced to remain on the streets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing Justice: Together with our allies, we pushed the City to respond to the doubling of families experiencing homelessness by adding these initiatives paid for by November 2018 Prop. C: 130 five-year rental subsidies for families. 35 five-year shallow subsidies for homeless working families. 115 emergency hotel rooms, families can use as shelter. 50 slots of five-year rapid rehousing for youth-headed families. Passing trailing legislation for these expenditures that requires the families in short-term subsidies to be informed that they can apply for extensions. We led a budget campaign that resulted in the following: Funding emergency rental assistance at $5 million . Adding $1 million for 27 permanent housing subsidies for homeless youth to use in the private rental market. Staving off the closure of a 24-hour pit stop bathroom. Staving off $400k in cuts to an earn-and-learn training for unhoused people. Saving the $5m for safe parking. We introduced legislation to ensure that families on short-term rental subsidies do not return to homelessness by extending their subsidies to five years.
$225,662 spent37% of program spendingHuman Rights: Our organizers facilitated weekly meetings with families living in RVs along Winston Drive and, together, advocated for secure housing and a safe parking site, resulting in 14 families receiving housing. Our Human Rights Organizing team continued to monitor and publicize human rights abuses unhoused community members faced as the city increased sweeps in the aftermath of the Grants Pass Supreme Court Case. We successfully beat back $3 million in cuts to Behavioral Health services in Prop. C
$119,148 spent20% of program spendingSRO Families United: We outreached and provided direct support to families living in single room occupancy hotels in the Tenderloin, and improved the conditions of those hotels. We were able to move most families living in SROs into permanent affordable housing, by changing policy to ensure families recieved a preference for housing and expanded the number of subsidies set aside for families living in SROs. We then worked to find housing and place those families in housing.
$121,949 spent$113,986 earned by the program20% of program spendingThis year, we strengthened our partnership with CCDC on the SRO Family Project, collaborating to support low-income families living in single-room occupancy (SRO) housing. Together, we organized several events aimed at providing resources, community support, and educational opportunities to help these families thrive.
$141,120 spent$3,656 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $607,879.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+18%).
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.
89% of Coalition On Homelessness’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Jennifer Freidenbach
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Barry Zevin
Board Chair - President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $92k → $481k.
15 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Coalition On Homelessness’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
Coalition On Homelessness has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 Coalition On Homelessness.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 95% · 2019 47% · 2020 32% · 2021 34% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% — 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
39% of Coalition On Homelessness's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
60% of Coalition On Homelessness'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside California, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Coalition On Homelessness holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Coalition On Homelessness
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coalition On Homelessness: 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 Coalition On Homelessness?
- Coalition On Homelessness (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,182,825 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($863,335). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Coalition On Homelessness have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,182,825 in grants to Coalition On Homelessness, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coalition On Homelessness?
- KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS is the largest funder on record, with $863,335 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coalition On Homelessness 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 44 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