Washington · Nonprofit
LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE
LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,515,726 to it, the largest being WYNCOTE FOUNDATION ($4,445,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $204M
What Low Income Housing Institute does
Mission
The Low Income Housing Institute develops, owns and operates housing for the benefit of low-income, homeless and formerly homeless people; advocates for just housing policies at the local and national levels; and administers a range of supportive service programs to assist those we serve in maintaining stable housing and increasing their self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Urban rest stop - hygiene centers for the homeless providing 24,588 showers, 11,654 laundry loads, and rest room uses.
$1,179,045 spent$26,402 earned by the program2% of program spendingHousing services - own or manage low-income and transitional housing projects totaling more than 2,891 units.
$40,093,520 spent$27,446,578 earned by the program55% of program spendingShelter program - technical assistance, management assistance, advocacy, case management, and fundraising for over 2,400 homeless people living in tents, tiny houses at 19 villages, and 5 enhanced shelters.
$28,766,186 spent$-1,761,517 earned by the program39% of program spendingGeneral resident services for the low income housing projects, supportive housing and special needs assistance.
$1,591,529 spentof which $72,399 as grants$235,999 earned by the program2% of program spendingReal estate development services for low-income housing projects.
$1,638,501 spent$56,068,555 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,268,781.
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 $254M to $349M (+38%).
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 16% · 2018 23% · 2019 15% · 2020 31% · 2021 47% · 2022 60% · 2023 68% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (3% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sharon Lee
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $4.2M.
21 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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
LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 46% · 2019 38% · 2020 21% · 2021 32% · 2022 34% · 2023 48% — 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
34% of LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16 unclassified nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 89 related entities
- Aki 1 LLC · disregarded
- Aki 2 LLC · disregarded
- Andover Court Associates LLC · disregarded
- Fleetwood Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Glen Hotel LP · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE?
- LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,515,726 to it, the largest being WYNCOTE FOUNDATION ($4,445,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $21,515,726 in grants to LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE?
- WYNCOTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 97 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