California · Nonprofit
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,233,943 to it, the largest being THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ($1,849,187). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Esperanza Community Housing Corporation does
Mission
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation is a social justice non-profit in south central los angeles that achieves long-term, comprehensive community development. We recognize that indigenous, black, and latino immigrant communities are disproportionately impacted by historical oppression, health disparities, disinvestment, and displacement. Therefore, we develop and preserve affordable housing; elevate health equity and access to care; mobilize for environmental justice; create and protect local economic opportunities; expand engagement in arts and culture; and advocate for policies protecting human rights. Esperanza works collaboratively to strengthen south los angeles. In all of our actions, esperanza builds hope with the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community services: the health programs deliver coordinated, community-based services to individuals and families to promote and achieve health and well-being in south los angeles and other areas within los angeles county. The community health promoters (chp) training program trained and cultivated 30 new chps to provide culturally and linguistically accessible health education, primary prevention, and advocacy to children and families. The healthy homes program provides in-home assessments for environmental health hazards and educates tenants to mitigate threats. The healthy breathing program utilizes healthy homes protocols to focus on asthma education/mitigation and distribute non-toxic cleaning supplies and materials. The healthy homes and healthy breathing programs conduct at least 3 visits with each household within a 6-month period. Both programs served a total of 346 families and outreached to 3,325 low-income community members. The healthy homes program is comprised of 2 program managers and 4 chps with one of the managers specializing in ipm (integrated pest management). The healthy breathing program is comprised of 1 program manager and 4 chps. The lead-free home…
$6,530,995 spent$12,289 earned by the program96% of program spendingLow-income housing and community development: planning development, acquisition, coordination of financing construction and management of low-income housing. The program has developed and is providing housing for 165 low-income families.
$210,411 spent$1,160,676 earned by the program3% of program spendingDeveloping and managing a neighborhood marketplace and office building to serve tenants of seven (7) restaurants, six (6) shops and nine (9) offices as well as a community conference room and day table. Adding job opportunities and providing tenants with low-cost opportunities to yield services for the low-income community. Organizing six annual arts and cultural festivals. Managing economic development programs to enhance local residents financial sustainablity.
$65,866 spent$65,866 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,807,272.
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 2018 to 2019, from $10M to $17M (+74%).
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 5% · 2018 13% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 12% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Brian Eklund
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $594k → $2.0M.
9 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 36% · 2020 21% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
81% of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.9M
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 2 related entities
- Casa Esperanza Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Mercado la Paloma Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: 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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION?
- ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,233,943 to it, the largest being THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ($1,849,187). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $13,233,943 in grants to ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION?
- THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $1,849,187 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 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