Arkansas · Nonprofit
Partners for Better Housing
Partners for Better Housing (Arkansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,148,111 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,986,879). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Partners for Better Housing does
Mission
Dedicated to building high quality homes people can love and afford in neighborhoods that strengthen the bonds of community.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
With the continued support from The Walton Family Foundation, Partners for Better Housing was able to accomplish key important metrics. Partners hired one key staff to increase access, education, and community engagement. Organization progress includes but not limited to reinforcing organization values (i.e. people-centered approach,innovation,empowerment, integrity, and subject-matter expert), continuing to build capacity, growing relationships with stakeholders, building partnerships and aligning with service contractors to mobilize Partners mission, completing the organizations first audit, developing an annual fundraising plan, case for support, implementing a donor management software, launching Freddie Mac CreditSmart workshops in Spanish,forming a Registered Student Organization on the UA campus, renewing Community Housing Development Organization(CHDO) status, and earning several certifications to apply for federal funding to increase affordable housing.
$221,570 spent73% of program spendingPartners ongoing real-estate development project, Homes at Willow Bend, conveniently located in the Walker Park neighborhood in Fayetteville, AR demonstrates a mixed-income urban community fostering a rich exchange of ideas, experiences, perspectives, and a sense of belonging. Lots within the neighborhood were rezoned from Residential Single Family (RSF-18) to Residential Intermediate (RI-U) to increase the originally proposed number of homes and diversify housing types. Sixteen (16) total single-family homes have been sold (15 market-rate);three(3)homes successfully inhabited by affordable homeowners through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity to support families below 80% AMI.
$83,114 spent27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $304,684.
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 2018 to 2019, from $285k to $1.3M (+349%).
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: 2019 100% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Partners for Better Housing’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (52% 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.
Chief executive
Tenisha Gist
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $655k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Partners for Better Housing’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
Partners for Better Housing leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Partners for Better Housing's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
Partners for Better Housing has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Partners for Better Housing
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
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 2 related entities
- None · exempt
- Homes at Willow Bend · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Partners for Better Housing: 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 Partners for Better Housing?
- Partners for Better Housing (Arkansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,148,111 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,986,879). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Partners for Better Housing have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,148,111 in grants to Partners for Better Housing, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Partners for Better Housing?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,986,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Partners for Better Housing find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7 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