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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,482 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($656,459). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$726k
Net assets
$3.4M
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Habitat for Humanity for San Luis Obispo County does

Mission

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity for san luis obispo brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Habitat for humanity san luis obispo county constructs affordable, energy-efficient homes for income-qualified families in san luis obispo county, california. Homes are sold at no profit to partner families who contribute sweat equity hours and purchase their homes through affordable mortgages. The organization manages all phases of development, including site acquisition, design, permitting, construction, and homebuyer preparation. Program activities address the severe shortage of affordable homeownership opportunities in one of california's most housing-cost-burdened regions.

    $63,647 spent$91,532 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  2. The organization operates two habitat restore retail locations in the cities of san luis obispo and paso robles which accept donations of new and gently used building materials, appliances, furniture, and home goods and resell them to the public at reduced prices. Restore operations divert usable materials from local landfills, provide affordable home improvement resources to the community, and generate revenue that directly supports habitat slo's affordable housing programs.

    $569,935 spent$-518 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  3. Habitat slo's home preservation program provides critical repair and rehabilitation services to low-income homeowners, seniors, veterans, and individuals with disabilities in san luis obispo county who are unable to maintain safe, decent housing conditions. Services include accessibility modifications, weatherization, plumbing and electrical repairs, and other critical home improvements. The program enables vulnerable residents to remain safely in their homes and supports the long-term stability of existing affordable housing stock in the county.

  4. Provided a contribution to habitat for humanity international (hfhi) to create a sustainable revenue stream to help finance a portion of operational costs incurred by hfhi to support the work of habitat affiliates.

    $2,500 spentof which $2,500 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $636,082.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($504k) Expenses 100 ($493k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 183 ($923k) Expenses 154 ($762k) Net assets 113 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 52 ($260k) Expenses 90 ($444k) Net assets 98 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 545 ($2.7M) Expenses 79 ($388k) Net assets 292 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 48 ($241k) Expenses 82 ($405k) Net assets 288 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 202 ($1.0M) Expenses 111 ($550k) Net assets 307 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 47 ($237k) Expenses 160 ($789k) Net assets 276 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 73 ($370k) Expenses 203 ($1.0M) Net assets 232 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 450 ($2.3M) Expenses 334 ($1.6M) Net assets 283 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (450)Expenses (334)Net assets (283)

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 $1.4M to $3.9M (+181%).

$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$3.9M
$3.8M
$5.1M
$5.4M
$7.5M
$7.6M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2021 66% · 2022 10% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$161k
’18
−$183k
’19
$2.4M
’20
−$164k
’21
$467k
’22
−$552k
’23
−$632k
’24
$624k
’25
5.4
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

Nicholas Rasmussen

CEO - part year

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed161414141311121314
Joined·+5+0+3+0+0+4+1+3
No longer listed·70312302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $68k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Mustunclassified
$10k
$780
funders
2
2
2
2
2
3
4
4
2

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY.

90%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 69% · 2019 65% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.

Where its funders are

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

CA
NC
GA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

39% of spending goes to programs.

Program 39%Management 47%Fundraising 15%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY?
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,482 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($656,459). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $726,482 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY?
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $656,459 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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