New York · Nonprofit
HOUSING WORKS INC
HOUSING WORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,829,484 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,133,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Housing Works Inc does
Mission
Housing works is a vibrant, healing community of people living with and affected by hiv/aids. Our mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and aids through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain our efforts. Our primary aim is to provide assistance and expertise to homeless persons living with aids or hiv-related illnesses and to provide expertise in the development of housing for homeless persons living with aids or hiv-related illnesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clinical services - housing works' primary exempt mission is to support individuals with aids or hiv-related illnesses. Housing works provides these services through its network of housing works entities. Housing works offers our clients more than just check-ups: we have the option of either stand-alone medical services or a holistic health care program that also includes meals, counseling, wellness, and other supportive services for people living with hiv/aids. Housing works health care integrates primary care, social services, case management, mental health and complementary therapies into a coherent treatment plan designed to address multiple challenges, such as mental illness, chemical dependency, homelessness, incarceration, and domestic violence. Housing works accepts medicaid, and is open to people with hiv/aids. Certain programs, including our transgender services and dental clinic are open to all new yorkers, regardless of hiv status. Our services, located at five locations in manhattan andbrooklyn, include:primary caremental health servicesa full-service dental clinictransgender servicesadult day health careour aids services address the complex issues facing our…
$25,697,972 spent$9,435,053 earned by the program41% of program spendingHousing works is the largest grassroots aids organization in the u.s., as well as the largest minority-controlled aids organization.housing works advocacy - we believe that people living with hiv/aids must lead the fight to eradicate the disease, a fight that includes access to healthcare and supportive services and an end to aids stigma. Advocacy highlights: advocacy offices in new york city, albany and washington, d. C., and close collaborations with aids groups in mississippi, haiti and puerto rico. Since 1995, weekly visits by our hiv-positive clients to new york state legislative offices in albany. Groundbreaking impact litigation, including a 2004 case forcing new york city to provide medically appropriate housing to homeless people living with hiv/aids. The housing works asylum project is providing housing, health care, legal support, financial support, volunteer work, job training, and employment to lgbt activists from nigeria, uganda, jamaica, and other nations who seek sanctuary in the u.s. To escape imprisonment and violence for who they are and who they love. The project began with the two initial individuals from nigeria, but has since blossomed into a program…
$35,435,707 spent$1,073,253 earned by the program56% of program spendingCapital projects, planning & development - to provide expertise in the development of housing for homeless individuals living with aids or hiv-related illnesses.
$1,917,886 spent$2,659,146 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,051,565.
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 $38M to $55M (+43%).
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 20% · 2018 40% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 56% · 2022 66% · 2023 69% · 2024 68% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of HOUSING WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Charles King
Ex-officio member & CEO
Board chair
Earl Ward
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 35 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $631k.
18 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Housing Works Thrift Shop Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HOUSING WORKS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HOUSING WORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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 WORKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
55% 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 WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 40% · 2019 33% · 2020 32% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 16% — 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
33% of HOUSING WORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
77% of HOUSING WORKS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 WORKS INC has grown faster than half of the 366 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOUSING WORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$19.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.4M
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 WORKS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 30 related entities
- Hw Ventures Ad · disregarded
- Hw Venture Lord · disregarded
- Hwi Venturs LLC · disregarded
- Bailey Holt House Hdfc · exempt
- Bailey House Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC?
- HOUSING WORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,829,484 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,133,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $7,829,484 in grants to HOUSING WORKS INC, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING WORKS INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,133,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING WORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 119 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing