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FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC

FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,044,064 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,046,350). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.1M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$8.0M
Net assets
$6.8M
18/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Fair Share Housing Center Inc does

Mission

To end discriminatory or exclusionary housing patterns which have deprived the poor, particularly those presently living in inner cities, of the opportunity to reside in an environment which offers safe, decent, and sanitary housing near employment and educational opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote racial and economic integration in housing through litigation and other forms of advocacy so that lower income persons will be provided an opportunity to live close to jobs in communities with thriving schools, no pollution, and low crime rates.

    $2,290,577 spentof which $87,310 as grants$193,500 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,290,577.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($663k)2018 Revenue 111 ($2.0M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 188 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 69 ($1.2M) Expenses 112 ($1.5M) Net assets 208 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 174 ($3.1M) Expenses 120 ($1.6M) Net assets 436 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 154 ($2.7M) Expenses 128 ($1.7M) Net assets 594 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 132 ($2.3M) Expenses 161 ($2.1M) Net assets 627 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 153 ($2.7M) Expenses 165 ($2.2M) Net assets 709 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 204 ($3.6M) Expenses 193 ($2.5M) Net assets 873 ($5.8M)2025 Revenue 231 ($4.1M) Expenses 235 ($3.1M) Net assets 1024 ($6.8M)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (235)Net assets (1024)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 $1.5M to $2.9M (+101%).

$789k
$1.3M
$1.5M
$2.9M
$4.1M
$4.3M
$5.0M
$5.9M
$7.0M
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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

94% of FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$456k
’17
$584k
’18
−$243k
’19
$1.5M
’20
$1.0M
’21
$220k
’22
$543k
’23
$1.1M
’24
$1.0M
’25
13
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.

Chief executive

Adam Gordon

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed66687771012
Joined·+0+0+2+2+0+0+3+5
No longer listed·00030003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $772k → $817k.

8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 73% · 2019 71% · 2020 50% · 2021 36% · 2022 50% · 2023 23% — 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

38% of FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 10 states in all.

ME
MN
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $413k on record.

State$413k
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Top programs
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$408k
  • DEDICATED$6k

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 FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 22%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC?
FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,044,064 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,046,350). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $8,044,064 in grants to FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,046,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing