Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT
NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,160,682 to it, the largest being TRUE HOMES FOUNDATION INC ($385,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $39M
What National Housing Endowment does
Mission
The National Housing Endowment will help address the challenges of the home building industry, enhance the ways we educate and train future generations of leaders in residential construction and increase the body of knowledge on housing issues. We will do so by supporting innovative and effective programs that further education, training, research and workforce development. The cornerstone of our education program is the unprecedented homebuilding education leadership program (h.e.l.p.). The endowment is awarding major grants to colleges and universities across the country, and working to help them create, expand or refocus existing residential construction management programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Grants to support education, research, manpower training, and recruitment of the best and brightest students for the housing industry. -"help program": support of fourteen college construction management programs to develop and deliver residential education to students. Includes eight new schools to nhe. - skilled labor fund -grants to support over 125 high school career events -grants to support skills trade training in high schools by underwriting curriculum fees. - ibs student travel scholarships: financial assistance for over 800 students to travel to builders show to compete in student competition-target support of eight hbcu's to participate in builders show- nahb safety mobile phone app: financial assistance for development of jobsite safety mobile phone app for safety information on jobsites- professor (help) symposium: support of university faculty to meet with housing industry experts- harvard state of the nation's housing report: support of annual report on the state of american housing.- student symposium: support of university students travel to meet with housing industry experts- acce support: funding of a scholarship managed by the american council for construction…
$1,663,222 spentof which $1,469,800 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,663,222.
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 2018 to 2019, from $22M to $26M (+15%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mark Pursell
President & CEO
Board chair
Gregory Ugalde
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $41k → $90k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hampton Roads Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT’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
NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
34% 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 NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 60% · 2019 67% · 2020 55% · 2021 82% · 2022 88% · 2023 89% — 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
63% of NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT is better cushioned than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- National Association of Home Builders (Nahb) · exempt
- Home Builders Institute · exempt
- National Housing Center Corporation · exempt
- Home Builders Industry Disaster Relief Fund Inc · exempt
- Home Innovation Research Labs Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT: 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 NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT?
- NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,160,682 to it, the largest being TRUE HOMES FOUNDATION INC ($385,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,160,682 in grants to NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT?
- TRUE HOMES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $385,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 14 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