Minnesota · Nonprofit
HOUSINGLINK
HOUSINGLINK (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,267,520 to it, the largest being FAMILY HOUSING FUND ($900,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $960k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $433k
What Housinglink does
Mission
Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housinglink has been providing affordable rental housing information in the twin cities for twenty-eight years and is recognized as the primary place to access housing options for low-to-moderate income renters. In addition to providing easy access to affordable housing waiting lists and vacancies, Housinglink is an esteemed data provider to a large group of stakeholders throughout minnesota. Centralized, easy access to information about the supply and location of affordable housing information is vital to ensure that community decisions are well-informed, and that low-income households are empowered to obtain housing in their locations of choice. Continued on schedule o.Housinglink (www.Housinglink.org) connects renters to the relevant, vital information they need to find the appropriate affordable home for their household and streamlines the process for advertising units to renters. Specifically, our housing search tool is online and allows users to find affordable vacancies and waiting lists. Over 1.7 million searches for affordable housing were performed using our website during 2025. Typically, renters are able to locate the information they need in less than four minutes.the…
$590,767 spent$42,407 earned by the program74% of program spendingThe beyond backgrounds program helps renters with barriers (criminal conviction, eviction, bad credit) by pairing the renter with a landlord risk mitigation fund to help them get into a rental home. There have been 1,247 renters housed, with 11% risk fund claims paid to landlords since the program began in 2022.waitlist central tool centralizes affordable housing waiting lists, giving renters one access point and transparency into their status on waiting lists while easing the burden on property owners by shifting the responsibility of waitlist management from owners to Housinglink.renter education: through our website's educational tools we educate renters about fair housing and their renter rights.property engagement and education: through property owner/management engagement, we encourage properties to accept vouchers and expand their housing vacancies to renters they might normally deny. Housinglink deepens relationships with property owners by offering interactive landlord education resources on our website.Housinglink data: Housinglink maintains reliable third-party data regarding affordable housing that informs policy makers, and housing organization's work. Our rental…
$211,469 spent$103,800 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $802,236.
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 2019 to 2020, from $990k to $1.6M (+64%).
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: 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 65% · 2021 60% · 2022 34% · 2023 39% · 2024 46% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of HOUSINGLINK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Dorine Onyancha
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $146k → $685k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HOUSINGLINK’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
HOUSINGLINK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
58% 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 HOUSINGLINK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 83% · 2019 46% · 2020 40% · 2021 16% · 2022 36% · 2023 37% — 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
63% of HOUSINGLINK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
89% of HOUSINGLINK's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k 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
HOUSINGLINK's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSINGLINK
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSINGLINK: 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 HOUSINGLINK?
- HOUSINGLINK (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,267,520 to it, the largest being FAMILY HOUSING FUND ($900,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSINGLINK have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,267,520 in grants to HOUSINGLINK, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSINGLINK?
- FAMILY HOUSING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSINGLINK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 22 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