Michigan · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC
COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,666,049 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR HOUSING OAKLAND COUNTY CONTINUUM OF CARE ($73,807,459). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $76M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Community Housing Network Inc does
Mission
Community housing network's (chn) mission is to empower people to live in affordable homes to help build thriving communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We started our innovative supportive services transformation fund program, which provided people with more intensive supportive services that help individuals and families maintain housing and work toward self-sufficiency.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Affordable housing & development. We managed leases for 734 households across 556 scattered-site properties in oakland, macomb, wayne and st. Clair counties, which provides affordable, independent living for people with low-incomes and/or disabilities. Our 12 multifamily communities have 311 units for low-income families and people with disabilities. In total, these communities house 949 people, including 332 children.
$8,651,410 spent55% of program spendingHousing programs. We continued to be the largest permanent supportive housing provider in oakland and macomb counties, as well as offering services in wayne county. Chn served 610 people, including 196 children, with leasing assistance and other essential support. Our homeless prevention services helped an additional 39 people more than half children with financial assistance or case management services. Our rapid rehousing for people experiencing homelessness, fleeing domestic violence or human trafficking placed 315 peoplemore than half childreninto homes. Through our housing mobility program, we helped 310 people with housing vouchers move to "higher-opportunity communities," helping them with economic mobility and long-term housing stability.
$7,072,815 spent45% of program spendingCrisis responseour housing resource center assisted 18,706 people, connecting them to support, programs and resources to secure or maintain housing. Our path street outreach team engaged 211 people experiencing homelessness, providing them with direct services or connecting them to other available resources.homebuyer & financial educationour certified housing counselors educated 291 households through workshops on credit, debt, budgeting, and tenant/homeowner rights and provided 25 households with one-on-one housing counseling.
$55,774 spent$2,433,625 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,779,999.
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 2020 to 2021, from $17M to $21M (+24%).
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 77% · 2018 82% · 2019 85% · 2020 86% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 87% · 2024 81% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Kirsten Elliott
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $228k → $3.1M.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC’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
COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 52% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% — 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
27% of COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC'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
100% of COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $46.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$46.7M
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 COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK 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 Michigan
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
99%
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 35 related entities
- Midwest Resources Partners LLC · disregarded
- Independent Choice Non-Profit Housing Corporation · exempt
- Independent Supportive Housing Oakland I Inc · exempt
- Independent Supportive Housing Oakland II Inc · exempt
- Isho III Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC?
- COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,666,049 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR HOUSING OAKLAND COUNTY CONTINUUM OF CARE ($73,807,459). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $75,666,049 in grants to COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC?
- ALLIANCE FOR HOUSING OAKLAND COUNTY CONTINUUM OF CARE is the largest funder on record, with $73,807,459 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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