Virginia · Nonprofit
Council for Affordable & Rural Housing
Council for Affordable & Rural Housing (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being SANDHURST COMMUNITY CAPITAL ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $491k
What Council for Affordable & Rural Housing does
Mission
The Council for Affordable and Rural Housing (CARH) is a national non-profit trade organization. For over 40 years, CARH has served as the nation's premier association for participants in the affordable rural housing profession. See Schedule O
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Seminars and Meetings - The Council utilizes seminars and meetings to disseminate educational material, regulatory updates, administrative notes, and other information regarding important regulatory and legislative changes relating to affordable housing.
Publications - Publishes a variety of useful, timely periodicals such as -Express: provides subscribers with updated regulations, administrative notices, and other information relevant to the development and management of section 515 housing. CARH News: Focuses on informing members of new administrative and legislative developments in affordable housing programs.CARH's Corner: A broadcast fax service which keeps members informed with regard to fast-breaking legislative and regulatory issues affecting the affordable housing industry.
Property Training and Education - Allows properties to have members take discounted courses designed for on-site property managers and supervisors, this can enable them to receive our nationally recognized designations.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2023 to 2024, from $429k to $501k (+17%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Council for Affordable & Rural Housing’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% 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
Colleen M Fisher
Executive Director
Board chair
Chris Potterpin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of Council for Affordable & Rural Housing’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
Council for Affordable & Rural Housing leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Council for Affordable & Rural Housing.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Council for Affordable & Rural Housing draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Council for Affordable & Rural Housing's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Council for Affordable & Rural Housing
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- CARH Scholarship Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council for Affordable & Rural Housing: 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 Council for Affordable & Rural Housing?
- Council for Affordable & Rural Housing (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being SANDHURST COMMUNITY CAPITAL ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Council for Affordable & Rural Housing have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to Council for Affordable & Rural Housing, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Council for Affordable & Rural Housing?
- SANDHURST COMMUNITY CAPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council for Affordable & Rural Housing find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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