Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST
NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,552,176 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $16M
What National Housing Trust does
Mission
The National Housing Trust's mission is to create and preserve affordable homes to provide opportunity, advance racial equity, reduce economic disparities, and strengthen community resilience through practice and policy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Energy efficiency: the National Housing Trust is committed to promoting energy efficiency and sustainability for low-income residents across the country. Nht's unique approach to energy efficiency includes policy advocacy, green lending, renewable energy, and sustainable development. In combination, these strategies result in healthier places for low-income residents to live, reduce operational costs, and result in resident savings and a cleaner environment.
$996,853 spentof which $52,642 as grants$127,680 earned by the program39% of program spendingAccess to opportunity: the National Housing Trust believes in a balanced approach to fair housing, which promotes access to high opportunity communities through mobility, while ensuring that residents who remain in neighborhoods currently experiencing distress and concentrated poverty have access to housing resources and investments that improve their housing. This approach allows for affordable housing development and preservation in a variety of areas, while ensuring that residents have the right to choose where they live. For nht, opportunity means giving families and elderly residents a choice that is best for them. Choice means both improving the quality of life for residents of low-income communities as well as supporting mobility to "high opportunity" neighborhoods.
$996,852 spentof which $52,641 as grants$127,679 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe trust provides assistance to government agencies and congressional committees and staff in connection with federal legislation affecting the existing supply of affordable housing. The trust provides technical assistance on a pro bono basis to non-profits, government agencies, and tenant associations seeking to preserve affordable low-income housing in a number of states. In 8 states, the trust engaged utilities, housing finance agencies and nonprofit housing developers to recommend that utilities provide a fair share of utility program energy retrofit funding for affordable housing occupied by low income renters.
$542,493 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,536,198.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $7.9M to $20M (+157%).
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: 2020 93% · 2021 87% · 2022 89% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $258k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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: $2.1M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 90% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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
33% of NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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
59% of NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.1M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.7M on record — $20.6M federal, $75k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$20.6M
- Grant$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 92 related entities
- Institute for Community Economics · exempt
- National Housing Trust Comm Dev Fund · exempt
- Nht Communities · exempt
- 104th Street Limited Partnership · partnership
- 3145 Mount Pleasant Street LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST: 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 TRUST?
- NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,552,176 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $17,552,176 in grants to NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing