California · Nonprofit
HOUSING ON MERIT
HOUSING ON MERIT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,829 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($42,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Housing on Merit does
Mission
Housing on Merit creates a bridge to permanent affordable housing for vulnerable populations across the continental united states in various states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Housing on Merit provides individuals and families residing at Housing on Merit's affordable housing properties with ancillary services through learning centers that focus on four key areas: education, empowerment, financial stability, and health and wellness. It also develops and owns affordable housing properties throughout the country and has a research and design platform dedicated to showcasing, incubating, and implementing new policy, finance, and technology solutions to the housing affordability and homelessness crisis.
$1,819,016 spentof which $11,227 as grants$3,484,178 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,819,016.
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 $1.3M to $5.6M (+323%).
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.
2% of HOUSING ON MERIT’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. 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.
Chief executive
Jaymie Beckett
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $44.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ON MERIT’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 ON MERIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 ON MERIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 50% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of HOUSING ON MERIT'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 $65k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ON MERIT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOUSING ON MERIT
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 94 related entities
- Hom 1130 Mlk Blvd LLC · disregarded
- Hom 2200 Midtown LLC · disregarded
- Hom 4209 Western Ave LLC · disregarded
- Hom 4301 S Vermont Ave LLC · disregarded
- Hom 6200 S Broadway LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSING ON MERIT: 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 ON MERIT?
- HOUSING ON MERIT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,829 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($42,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOUSING ON MERIT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $133,829 in grants to HOUSING ON MERIT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING ON MERIT?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING ON MERIT 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.
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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 7 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