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Housing Development Center

Housing Development Center (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,187 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($689,687). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$822k
Net assets
$4.9M
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Housing Development Center does

Mission

Centering those who have been historically oppressed, Housing Development Center, inc. Collaborates with its partners to envision, develop, and sustain affordable homes and community places.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Housing and facilities developmenthdc's housing and facilities development team works with mission-driven organizations to finance, build, and renovate affordable housing and community facilities that serve people with lower incomes. Hdc assists with the development of all types of affordable housing, including multifamily rental, homeownership, and mixed-use developments. Hdc also assists with the development of healthcare, childcare, and other service facilities. Hdc's development services span all aspects and phases of project development, from planning and predevelopment through financial structuring and construction management. Hdc provides expertise in assessing and meeting compliance obligations associated with specialized affordable housing financing programs. In its 30-year history, hdc's housing & facilities development program has worked with mission-driven organizations to manage over 200 development projects in oregon and southwest washington. These projects have resulted in the development or preservation of more than 8,000 completed housing units and 350,000 completed square feet of community facility and commercial space. Together these projects represent over $1…

    $2,360,316 spent$3,099,342 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. Asset managementhdc's asset management team guides clients through the challenges of owning and managing affordable housing and community facilities over the long term. Hdc provides technical assistance and training to nonprofit organizations, housing authorities, and government entities. Hdc has helped project owners across oregon to preserve and improve the viability of tens of thousands of units of affordable housing, as well as to implement ongoing systems for effective asset management and oversight. Hdc's asset management services include property and portfolio assessments, property and portfolio repositioning, property transfers, year 15 exits, capital needs assessments, reserve analyses, systems development, and staff and board training.

    $568,370 spent$306,180 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  3. Hdc community fund. Llc hdc's wholly owned subsidiary, hdc community fund, llc (hdc community fund), was formed in august 2009. A certified community development financial institution (cdfi), hdc community fund provides loans to support the development and preservation of affordable housing and community facilities serving people with lower incomes. Hdc community fund's flexible, low-interest loans address needs that conventional lending programs don't. The loans target early project costs, such as feasibility assessment, land acquisition, and predevelopment, and they bridge short-term gaps in construction financing. Totaling $9.98 million to date, hdc community fund loans have supported the creation or preservation of 1,663 units of affordable housing and 57,085 square feet of service-facility space.

    $57,286 spent$53,726 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  4. Policy and industry support hdc believes in making the affordable housing delivery system more equitable, sustainable, cost efficient, and responsive to the people who use it. Hdc provides support to policy, innovation, and peer learning initiatives to advance these goals. Hdc's policy and industry support work has addressed challenges such as increasing minority contractor participation in affordable housing development, modeling creative strategies to lower affordable housing capital costs and climate impact, and planning for public resources to sustain existing affordable housing stock.

    $49,541 spent
    2% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,035,513.

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 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 113 ($2.5M) Expenses 105 ($2.4M) Net assets 105 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 121 ($2.7M) Expenses 116 ($2.7M) Net assets 108 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 150 ($3.4M) Expenses 131 ($3.0M) Net assets 120 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 139 ($3.1M) Expenses 129 ($2.9M) Net assets 126 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 145 ($3.2M) Expenses 118 ($2.7M) Net assets 144 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 145 ($3.2M) Expenses 138 ($3.1M) Net assets 148 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 142 ($3.2M) Expenses 143 ($3.3M) Net assets 146 ($4.4M)2025 Revenue 187 ($4.2M) Expenses 161 ($3.7M) Net assets 163 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (161)Net assets (163)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 $5.3M to $6.1M (+16%).

$4.5M
$4.6M
$4.4M
$4.5M
$4.7M
$5.2M
$5.3M
$5.3M
$6.1M
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of Housing Development Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
$160k
’18
$67k
’19
$379k
’20
$168k
’21
$561k
’22
$103k
’23
−$57k
’24
$523k
’25
16
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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.

Board chair

Sarah Zahn

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101011121313131313
Joined·+3+5+3+1+4+4+1+0
No longer listed·34204410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $139k.

Funder
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funders
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1
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1
1

From the IRS filings of Housing Development Center’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 Development Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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

99% of Housing Development Center's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Development Center holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve15.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Housing Development Center receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $253k on record.

State$253k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$246k
  • PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$3k
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$3k
  • TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$1k

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 Development Center

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Hdc Community Fund · disregarded
  • Nueva Esperanza Limited Partnership · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds Housing Development Center?
Housing Development Center (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,187 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($689,687). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Housing Development Center have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $822,187 in grants to Housing Development Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Housing Development Center?
MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $689,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Housing Development Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 3 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