California · Nonprofit
HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY
HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,563,761 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,808,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County does
Mission
To work with communities and their leaders to produce and preserve quality affordable homes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PROGRAM: KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND OUTCOMES HLC continues to advance solutions to the housing crisis in San Mateo County through policy advocacy, coalition leadership, community organizing, and leadership development. As a membership organization, HLC works with partners across sectors to expand and preserve affordable housing, strengthen tenant protections, and build community support for equitable housing policy. Housing Advocacy and Systems Change:HLC continued to work in broad coalitions to advance policies and funding streams that support affordable housing production and preservation across the county. In 2025, local and regional public investments continued to scale, including county-level funding commitments supporting hundreds of new affordable homes across multiple jurisdictions serving low-income families, seniors, farmworkers, people with disabilities, and residents experiencing homelessness. Language Justice and Community Participation:HLC continued expanding bilingual programming and language access in events and communications, ensuring broader community participation in housing policy conversations and advocacy efforts. This work strengthens representation of…
$454,900 spent70% of program spendingPROGRAM: HOUSING EDUCATION Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County (HLC) hosts two significant annual educational events: Housing Leadership Day and Affordable Housing Month. Housing Leadership Day (HLD)is HLCs premier annual housing policy and education conference held each fall. In 2025, HLC hosted the 25th Annual Housing Leadership Day on October 17, bringing together approximately 230 housing advocates, elected officials, developers, planners, investors, and community members for a full day of learning, collaboration, and networking focused on advancing housing solutions for people at all income levels across San Mateo County. The event included multiple workshop sessions covering topics such as commercial-to-housing conversion, ADU starter homes, inclusive housing strategies, federal housing funding impacts, and financing tools for affordable housing development.Housing Leadership Day continued HLCs commitment to language justice by offering full bilingual programming with simultaneous Spanish interpretation for all sessions, expanding access and participation in regional housing conversations. The event marked 25 years of convening cross-sector housing leaders to…
$192,277 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $647,177.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.8M (+75%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $290k → $891k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY’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 LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 56% · 2019 58% · 2020 66% · 2021 34% · 2022 32% · 2023 38% — 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
64% of HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY'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 LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY?
- HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,563,761 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,808,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,563,761 in grants to HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,808,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 20 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