Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Open Arms Housing Inc
Open Arms Housing Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,804 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $433k
- Net assets
- $833k
What Open Arms Housing Inc does
Mission
Open Arms Housings (OAH) mission is to provide permanent homes and ongoing support to women experiencing homelessness. Special care is taken to provide comprehensive mental health support to OAH clients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For clients under the scattered site PSHP, OAH case managers provide intensive mobile case management. All supportive services include supportive counseling, crisis intervention, financial management and assistance in receiving public benefits and referrals to resources and/or programs. OAH also connects residents with off-site services that include mental health and assertive community treatment, alcohol and drug abuse counseling, employment counseling, day programs, volunteer opportunities, self-help groups, medical treatment, and food pantries. The scattered site PSHP program has extended to service families and increased our ability to provide service. As a result, Open Arms Housing has increased those numbers of chronic homeless women and families being served in the District of Columbia. Through our innovative service model of delivering services, we now currently provie housing to over 350 women and families across the District.
$1,298,251 spent$1,723,419 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe Dunbar was the first female only, single site Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project for women unaccompanied by children. The Dunbar began housing residents in the fall of 2009. Each woman has her own efficiency apartment with a full kitchen and bathroom. The building includes three wheelchair-accessible units and a community room with shared phones, a television, computers, and space for meetings and social gatherings. The availability of an onsite Certified Peer Specialist and Case Managers, with whom residents can consult, arrange benefits, and request access to mobile treatment teams, helps ensure access to supportive services at a level and pace determined by each resident. OAH has maintained a 95% housing stability success rate, with residents remaining in safe, secure, permanent housing and not returning to homelessness.
$226,821 spent$245,428 earned by the program14% of program spendingOpen Arms Housings second building, Owen Place, opened in the Fall of 2015 in the Trinidad neighborhood. Owen Place includes four one-bedroom apartments. From its conception, Open Arms has stressed the provision of quality living spaces with full bath and kitchen for each resident; shared common space; customization of units to meet the special mobility and other needs of residents; a safe and secure building to call home; and effective property management that keeps each unit a healthy and responsive place to live.
$80,683 spent$55,227 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,605,755.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $3.4M (+17%).
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 67% · 2018 77% · 2019 77% · 2020 86% · 2022 85% · 2023 83% · 2024 84% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Open Arms Housing Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Arthur Cutler
President & CEO
Board chair
Edgar Ndjatou
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $32k → $75k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Open Arms Housing Inc’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
Open Arms Housing Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Open Arms Housing Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 39% · 2019 51% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 67% — 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
33% of Open Arms Housing Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
76% of Open Arms Housing Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Open Arms Housing Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Open Arms Housing Inc
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Open Arms Housing 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Open Arms Housing Inc?
- Open Arms Housing Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,804 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Open Arms Housing Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $432,804 in grants to Open Arms Housing Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Open Arms Housing Inc?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Open Arms Housing Inc 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.
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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 8 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