Florida · Nonprofit
HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC
HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,419,787 to it, the largest being TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC ($7,143,714). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Housing First Steps Forward Inc does
Mission
To offer permanent housing and support services for the chronically homeless adult population in hillsborough county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Housing first steps forward, inc. Opened orchid cove apartments in 2014, southland apartments in 2015, manchester apartments in 2016, greenwood apartments in 2018, and youngstown apartments in 2023. All operating facilities provide apartments to the chronically homeless population. Currently, housing first steps forward, inc. Has a total of one hundred and twenty-seven operating units, twenty at the orchid cove location, forty-seven at the southland location, thirty-six at the manchester location, twenty-four at the greenwood location and thirty-six at the youngstown location. Occupancy at december 31, 2024 was 95% at orchid cove. Southland apartments at 85%. 70% at manchester. 96% at greenwood apartments and 94% at youngstown apartments.
$1,996,875 spent$2,240,093 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,996,875.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.2M to $11M (+36%).
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: 2017 59% · 2018 60% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 70% · 2022 62% · 2023 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $744k → $2.1M.
1 of 3 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 FIRST STEPS FORWARD 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 FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
97% 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 FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 66% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.
Against its field
HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Hfsf 1 LLC · disregarded
- Hfsf 2 LLC · disregarded
- Hfsf 3 LLC · disregarded
- Hfsf 4 LLC · disregarded
- Hfsf 5 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC?
- HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,419,787 to it, the largest being TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC ($7,143,714). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,419,787 in grants to HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC?
- TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,143,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING FIRST STEPS FORWARD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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