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Housing Collaborative

Housing Collaborative (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,320,991 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($6,996,423). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$8.3M
Net assets
$2.8M
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Housing Collaborative does

Mission

Housing Collaborative makes affordable housing easier to navigate by helping to secure rental housing for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness; and for those who have lost housing due to disaster or displacement. We make it easier for housing providers to work with program-connected households by expediting all aspects of housing placement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Housing Collaborative is a nonprofit that makes affordable housing easier to navigate. Founded in Charlotte in 1999, Housing Collaborative helps secure or retain housing for households experiencing homelessness;those who have lost housing due to disaster, displacement, or eviction;and those who are at risk of homelessness. We work in collaboration with other mission-based organizations by leveraging their supportive services and/or programmatic resources with our housing expertise and housing-related resources. In FY25,Housing Collaborative continued our housing placement and inspection coordination services in 80 counties and expanded those services to Buncombe County in North Carolina:Housing Collaborative helped 902 households (1,842 people) experiencing or at risk of homelessness to secure housing across 81 counties, including 45 households (106 people) impacted by displacement events.We added over 350 new housing provider partners statewide.Our inspection team coordinated over 2,500 rental housing inspections.We checked in with property providers to provide support over 3,500 times.In FY25,Housing Collaborative provided $9.8M in housing-related financial assistance for…

    $12,853,878 spentof which $9,825,733 as grants$3,084,420 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,853,878.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($998k)2021 Revenue 1273 ($33M) Expenses 1713 ($32M) Net assets 172 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 3240 ($83M) Expenses 4393 ($82M) Net assets 294 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 1433 ($37M) Expenses 1966 ($37M) Net assets 305 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 221 ($5.7M) Expenses 333 ($6.2M) Net assets 252 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 520 ($13M) Expenses 701 ($13M) Net assets 280 ($2.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (520)Expenses (701)Net assets (280)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $10.0M (+206%).

$1.1M
$2.4M
$3.7M
$4.4M
$3.3M
$10.0M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 84% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of Housing Collaborative’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 881 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$702k
’20
$719k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$108k
’23
−$528k
’24
$278k
’25
7.4
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

Tara Peele

President & CEO

Board chair

Erin Barbee

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed131415151518
Joined·+5+1+2+3+4
No longer listed·40231
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $3.2M.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Collaborative’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 Collaborative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

92% 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 Collaborative.

84%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 83% · 2023 89% — 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 Housing Collaborative's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

99% of Housing Collaborative's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MN
NC
DC

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

Housing Collaborative holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Housing Collaborative receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.

Federal$1.1M
grants $1.1Mcontracts $0
22
23
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.1M

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 Housing Collaborative

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds Housing Collaborative?
Housing Collaborative (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,320,991 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($6,996,423). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Housing Collaborative have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $8,320,991 in grants to Housing Collaborative, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Housing Collaborative?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,996,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Housing Collaborative find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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