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HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC

HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,903,559 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($1,667,524). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.3M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$2.1M
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Housing Assistance Program of Essex County Inc does

Mission

To administer section 8 housing in clinton and essex counties, ny while also assisting low income resident complete home purchases and home renovations to maintain safe and adequate housing.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Cdbg and home rehabilitation program helps low income families withsubstandard housing meet local safety and building codes.

    $1,289,044 spent
    56% of program spending

  2. Housing home ownership program provides housing counseling and financial assistance to low income residents of essex and clinton counties purchasing a home. Provides local government with assistance in administering their housing grants.

    $450,082 spent$3,897 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

  3. Section 8 program provides administration services to nys dhcr inadministering hud section 8 housing assistance programs in essexand clinton counties.

    $522,205 spent$453,344 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

  4. Other programs: lee house, rpc, both ways, nys lap, smart growth and urgent needs

    $31,550 spent$68,826 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,292,881.

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 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 153 ($4.1M) Expenses 171 ($3.8M) Net assets 122 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 87 ($2.3M) Expenses 99 ($2.2M) Net assets 132 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 75 ($2.0M) Expenses 69 ($1.6M) Net assets 163 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 84 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($2.3M) Net assets 162 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 98 ($2.6M) Expenses 118 ($2.7M) Net assets 169 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 122 ($3.3M) Expenses 151 ($3.4M) Net assets 160 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 86 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 167 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (100)Net assets (167)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $3.5M (+44%).

$1.4M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$3.5M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 70% · 2018 84% · 2019 76% · 2020 62% · 2021 68% · 2022 81% · 2023 77% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$446k
’17
$280k
’18
$123k
’19
$471k
’20
−$15k
’21
−$15k
’22
−$110k
’23
$81k
’24
3.1
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed910111111111212
Joined·+1+2+1+1+1+3+0
No longer listed·0111120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $135k → $216k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
2
4
6
3
2
2

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC’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

HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC.

88%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 81% · 2022 77% · 2023 82% — 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

40% of HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.

NY
MA
DC

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

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY 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

Otsego Rural Housing Assistance Inc81%Housing and Family Services of Greater New York Inc80%Snowbelt Housing Company Inc79%Long Island Housing Services Inc79%Etc Housing Corporation Evergreen Townhomes79%Franklin County Community Housing Council Inc79%Mental Health Association in Essex County Inc79%Covenant Housing Corporation of Central78%

Nationally

Otsego Rural Housing Assistance Inc81%Housing and Family Services of Greater New York Inc80%Snowbelt Housing Company Inc79%Long Island Housing Services Inc79%Etc Housing Corporation Evergreen Townhomes79%Franklin County Community Housing Council Inc79%Mental Health Association in Essex County Inc79%Community Housing Improvement Program79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Adirondack Community Housing Trust · exempt
  • Lee Housing LP · partnership
  • Lee Housing Development Corporation · corp_trust
  • Mackenzie Overlook Hdfc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC?
HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,903,559 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($1,667,524). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,903,559 in grants to HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY INC?
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,667,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF ESSEX COUNTY 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.

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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 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