New York · Nonprofit
FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC
FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,833,506 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Fund for Public Housing Inc does
Mission
The fund for public housing creates and leverages resources and relationships to enhance the opportunities and quality of life for new york city public housing residents, while uplifting the importance of public housing to our city. As a non profit(501c3) organization, the fund for public housing amplifies and supports nycha's critical mission to provide quality housing for new yorkers that is sustainable, inclusive and safe, while fostering opportunities for economic mobility.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The fund supports programs in four focus areasleadership development, workforce skills and economic mobility, community health, and financial empowermentto empower over 500,000 nycha residents to maximize their capabilities and fulfill their aspirations. In 2025, the fund expanded green space connections, scaling the connected communities initiative by engaging residents at four high-need nycha developments in brooklyn and the bronx, and securing funding to serve an addtional four communities through the program. The program increases access to healthy, safe, and sustainable green spaces in collaboration with expert partners in greenspace development, human-centered design, community programming, and communications. During 2025, the fund launched from imagine to activate, a green space connections toolkit to support replication of the model for future projects. The toolkit is designed for use by stakeholders, including nycha resident leaders and other nonprofit organizations, and provides guidance on costs and processes associated with common open space upgrades and art installation and restoration. In addition, in 2025, the fund expanded work in nycha's open spaces including a…
$7,819,114 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,819,114.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $9.3M (+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: 2020 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Alex Zablocki
Executive director
Board chair
Joanne Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $43k → $5.7M.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 52% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 30% · 2023 50% — 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
33% of FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
95% of FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
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 FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC: 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 FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC?
- FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,833,506 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $16,833,506 in grants to FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 40 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