California · Nonprofit
Human Investment Project Inc
Human Investment Project Inc (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,706,182 to it, the largest being THE SOBRATO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,296,750). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Human Investment Project Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,881 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Housing Partnership Network Incportfolio match
- Eden Housing Incportfolio match
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.
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 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 17% · 2024 7% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Human Investment Project Inc’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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $530k → $1.1M.
12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $10M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest HIP Housing Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money Human Investment Project Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Human Investment Project Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
Human Investment Project Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
51% 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 Human Investment Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 45% · 2019 55% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 32% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of Human Investment Project Inc'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
87% of Human Investment Project Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 45 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 223 organizations near you
- The Housing Partnership Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eden Housing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Midpen Housing Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Housing Trust Silicon Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tamalpais Pacificportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Equity Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Urban Habitat Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Extrafoodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Fair Housing Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tipping Point Communityshared funderslocalCA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders · funds 167 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Human Investment Project Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82%
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 5 related entities
- 111 East 5TH Avenue LLC · disregarded
- HIP Housing Development Corporation · exempt
- HIP Housing Affordable Ventures Inc · exempt
- Redwood Oaks Associates · partnership
- Redwood Oaks - HHDC LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Human Investment Project Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Human Investment Project Inc?
- Human Investment Project Inc (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,706,182 to it, the largest being THE SOBRATO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,296,750). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Human Investment Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $6,706,182 in grants to Human Investment Project Inc, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Human Investment Project Inc?
- THE SOBRATO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,296,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Human Investment Project Inc 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 45funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing