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CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL

CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being CORTLAND COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$545k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$-2509188
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Cortland Housing Assistance Council does

Mission

To secure housing at low and moderate cost for the economically disadvantaged Citizens of Cortland County, New York

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide housing rehabilitation and other housing related services to low income residents of Cortland County

    $188,358 spent$146,328 earned by the program
    54% of program spending

  2. To purchase and restore residential units for rental to low income families at reduced rates

    $161,125 spent$117,504 earned by the program
    46% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $349,483.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($607k) Expenses 100 ($640k)2018 Revenue 99 ($602k) Expenses 98 ($630k)2019 Revenue 104 ($633k) Expenses 94 ($600k)2020 Revenue 116 ($704k) Expenses 88 ($562k)2021 Revenue 107 ($651k) Expenses 83 ($534k)2022 Revenue 89 ($538k) Expenses 87 ($560k)2023 Revenue 88 ($536k) Expenses 72 ($458k)2024 Revenue 61 ($371k) Expenses 57 ($363k)2025 Revenue 90 ($545k) Expenses 68 ($434k)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (68)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 2019 to 2020, from $572k to $770k (+35%).

$653k
$617k
$572k
$770k
$739k
$738k
$774k
$759k
$867k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 51% · 2019 46% · 2020 58% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 37% · 2024 33% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’17
−$27k
’18
$33k
’19
$143k
’20
$118k
’21
−$22k
’22
$78k
’23
$9k
’24
$111k
’25
4.7
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.

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Listed1010998991010
Joined·+0+0+0+3+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·01041000
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
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL

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 New York

Galvan Housing Resources Inc75%Cortland Downtown Partnership74%United Way for Cortland County Inc73%Community Capital Resources Housing Development Fund Corporation73%Cortland College Alumni Association Inc72%Cortland County Community Action Program72%Covenant Housing Corporation of Central72%Greater Centennial Community Development Corporation71%

Nationally

Galvan Housing Resources Inc75%Cortland Downtown Partnership74%United Way for Cortland County Inc73%Community Capital Resources Housing Development Fund Corporation73%Dlh Low-Income Housing Inc72%Cortland College Alumni Association Inc72%Housing Partners of Ashland County Inc72%Cortland County Community Action Program72%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Pomeroy School Apartments LP · partnership
  • Pomeroy School Project Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL: 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 CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL?
CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being CORTLAND COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL.
Who is the largest funder of CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL?
CORTLAND COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CORTLAND HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 1 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