Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,104,135 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HOUSING INC ($63,899,677). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerlocal
- Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Futureportfolio match
- The Housing Partnership Network 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.
0% of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $6.4M → $2.0M.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 42% · 2019 75% · 2020 20% · 2021 56% · 2022 28% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
89% of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 90% 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
100% of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Arts and Humanities Council of MontgomerlocalMD · funds 136 organizations near you
- Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Housing Partnership Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Equity Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Fair Housing Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowdoin Apartments Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Mortgage Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Housing Assistance Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Community Reinvestment Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco Dba Balanceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Community Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS 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 Maryland
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
100%
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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC?
- NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,104,135 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HOUSING INC ($63,899,677). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $292,104,135 in grants to NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC?
- DOGWOOD HOUSING INC is the largest funder on record, with $63,899,677 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 10funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing