Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSING FORWARD
HOUSING FORWARD (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,915,744 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($5,485,820). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Housing Forward does
Mission
Housing Forward leads in the development and implementation of an effective homeless response system to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in dallas and collin counties.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Housing Forward undertook new Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Rehousing, Coordinated Outreach, and Youth Planning services. Housing Forward is the financial intermediary for these projects and subgrants to non profit providers for the delivery of services. These projects are funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the City of Dallas.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Housing Forward leads the planning and grant submission for the federally funded continuum of care program consolidated application which brings in approximately $51 million in hud funds for housing and services for persons experiencing homelessness. Housing Forward's role as collaborative applicant provides leadership to the coc planning bodies, provides guidance to the governance of the coc, federal and state compliance, evaluates and monitors overall performance of the continuum of care, coordinates the homeless re-housing system, and leads the strategic planning process to implement strategies for ending homelessness. Housing Forward also serves as the financial intermediary and rental assistance administrator for several grants to enhance administrative efficiency and support to service providers. Housing Forward also serves as the administrator of the homeless management information system (hmis) and the coordinated access system, which are hud-mandated systems for public and private homeless housing and services programs, to track client level information and performance outcomes.
$18,060,402 spentof which $14,007,787 as grants$498,121 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,060,402.
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 2020 to 2021, from $826k to $7.4M (+797%).
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 57% · 2018 73% · 2019 60% · 2020 66% · 2021 24% · 2022 53% · 2023 71% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HOUSING FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Peter Brodsky
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $712k → $3.1M.
12 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 FORWARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
HOUSING FORWARD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 61% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 42% · 2022 61% · 2023 40% — 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
44% of HOUSING FORWARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
70% of HOUSING FORWARD's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
HOUSING FORWARD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HOUSING FORWARD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$72.3M
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 FORWARD
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSING FORWARD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD?
- HOUSING FORWARD (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,915,744 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($5,485,820). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $20,915,744 in grants to HOUSING FORWARD, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING FORWARD?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,485,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING FORWARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 67 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