Minnesota · Nonprofit
FAMILY HOUSING FUND
FAMILY HOUSING FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,208,870 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($11,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $49M
What Family Housing Fund does
Mission
The Family Housing Fund ("fund") is a nonprofit intermediary organization whose mission is to help the affordable housing network adapt to the needs of families in complex and constantly changing conditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expand opportunities - the fund aims to improve housing stability, reduce evictions and displacement, improve housing choice, and ensure access to quality, affordable homes. To accomplish this, the fund leads and coordinates activities to systematically address threats to housing stability and choice, in partnership with public and private partners. This includes convening partners across private, nonprofit, and public sectors to develop strategies for expanding access to emergency financial assistance, identify and address the impacts of corporate-owned single-family rental homes, disrupt discriminatory tenant screening practices, and improve the quality of the housing stock across the twin cities region.
$749,558 spentof which $462,530 as grants20% of program spendingBuilding equity - the fund supports strategies that expand access to homeownership for black, indigenous, and people of color communities and help reduce racial wealth disparities. Building on the learnings from our small multifamily ownership work, the fund further developed our valuing homes in black communities initiative (building equity next generation) in 2024. This was a holistic effort to transform the homeownership journey for black communities and address wide-ranging challenges affecting black communities' ability to build and sustain wealth through homeownership. Synthesizing the learnings from our engagement and co-design process, we developed three core strategies focused on supporting black homeownership. The fund published these recommendations in a report and sought to align our work with complementary efforts in the twin cities. In 2024, the fund invested in the advancing black homeownership community fund, a special purpose credit down payment assistance program led by the minnesota home ownership center and twin cities habitat for humanity which is also piloting a post-purchase support strategy. Our investment supported access to capital post-purchase for new…
$428,323 spentof which $123,750 as grants12% of program spendingIncrease supply - this program area aims to increase housing choice and affordability by expanding new approaches to housing development and preservation in the twin cities region. The fund informs local policy throughout the region to preserve and produce housing, while also exploring and supporting new tools for expanding the supply of quality, affordable homes. In 2024, the fund helped convene a coalition of nonprofit housing providers to explore current threats facing the affordable housing sector and identify and amplify potential solutions for bringing the sector back to health.
$581,958 spentof which $256,501 as grants$25,000 earned by the program16% of program spendingActivate housing champions - the fund increases public will for housing solutions by supporting advocacy efforts, producing and publishing research, and elevating housing success stories through its strategic communications. The fund also strengthens the local ecosystem of housing organizations and resources by providing support to community-based partner organizations. In 2024, the fund published four reports of research and key learnings and hosted four virtual events with the public to share housing learnings.
$1,924,667 spentof which $421,968 as grants$420,981 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,684,506.
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 $59M to $52M (−12%).
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 82% · 2022 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of FAMILY HOUSING FUND’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. 6 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
Ellen K Sahli
President & CEO
Board chair
John Quincy
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $828k.
1 of 15 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $886k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FAMILY HOUSING FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY HOUSING FUND’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
FAMILY HOUSING FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 97% · 2020 73% · 2021 46% · 2022 71% · 2023 45% — 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
67% of FAMILY HOUSING FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
80% of FAMILY HOUSING FUND's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FAMILY HOUSING FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY HOUSING FUND
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY HOUSING FUND: 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 FAMILY HOUSING FUND?
- FAMILY HOUSING FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,208,870 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($11,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY HOUSING FUND have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $21,208,870 in grants to FAMILY HOUSING FUND, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY HOUSING FUND?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY HOUSING FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 15 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