California · Nonprofit
FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING
FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,158,438 to it, the largest being Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($719,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-994215
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-23248992
What First Community Housing does
Mission
To relieve the poor and underprivileged, to lessen the burdens of government and to combat community deterioration by developing and providing quality, affordable housing for low and moderate-income households.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In partnership with the third-party property management companies, other non-profit service companies and public agencies, over 3,000 people were served during the year. Management services at each property, fch provides enhanced, on-site resident services. These services are customized to the needs of residents through partnerships with service-based non-profit organizations. The programs include: financial literacy, computer training classes, youth literacy, and more.
$10,353,628 spent$1,782,154 earned by the program96% of program spendingSince 1986 First Community Housing (fch) has developed and operates over 1,634 units of high-quality affordable rental housing for households earning 20-80% of the area median income for silicon valley. Fch is a green developer noted for its commitment to using sustainable, energy-efficient materials and systems in its developments and has won awards for architectural design, property management, and energy-efficiency.
$425,134 spent$670,572 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,778,762.
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.
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 $52M to $100M (+93%).
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 94% · 2018 22% · 2019 52% · 2020 13% · 2021 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Richard L Conniff
Chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $160k → $43k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $22M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rincon de Los Esteros Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING raised.
From the IRS filings of FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 96% · 2020 84% · 2021 68% · 2022 35% · 2023 58% — 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
60% of FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING'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
65% of FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $402k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $757k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like FIRST COMMUNITY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 58 related entities
- 1585 Studios LLC · disregarded
- 21 N 21st Street LLC · disregarded
- 21 North 21st Street LP · disregarded
- Bay Avenue Senior Housing LLC · disregarded
- Casa Feliz Studios LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST COMMUNITY 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 FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING?
- FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,158,438 to it, the largest being Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($719,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,158,438 in grants to FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING?
- Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $719,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING 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.
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 12 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