California · Nonprofit
PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP
PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,901,675 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($4,578,216). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $87M
What People's Self Help Housing Corp does
Mission
We build affordable homes with site-based services that offer opportunities to change lives and strengthen communities on the central coast of california.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affordable housing rental program - the affordable housing program provides housing to qualified low-income households, including families, seniors, farmworkers, and other special needs groups. Pshhc owns 929 affordable rental units in three counties, providing affordable housing to over 2,646 low-income residents. Pshhc affordable housing units provide housing to 160 disabled residents, 206 senior residents, 45 veteran residents and their families and 189 previously homeless residents in san luis obispo, santa barbara and ventura counties. Pshhc believes the affordable housing program provides economic and educational opportunities to the low-income residents; leading to self-sufficiency and improving local communities.
$4,394,300 spentof which $75,282 as grants$4,653,294 earned by the program24% of program spendingAffordable housing, tenant assistance, resident services, financial literacy and youth education programs - the resident services and resident education programs provide for low-income senior and families, counseling and after school tutoring program, health screenings, financial literacy programs, homeownership counseling, foreclosure counseling, and emergency financial assistance. These programs are designed to help low-income persons remain housed in safe and affordable housing, and to provide educational opportunities. Pshhc's youth education program has 454 participants and 66 participants in the college club program that awarded 11 scholarships for participants attending colleges. In addition, pshhc supportive housing program assisted 1,729 residents with clinical case management services.
$4,390,406 spent$2,173,502 earned by the program24% of program spendingAffordable housing development - pshhc moved 10 families into homes in nipomo, ca. We started 14 families on their paths to homeownership with financial qualifications and homeowner education for new homes in san miguel, ca. Final map and entitlements were approved for 49 new homes in santa maria, ca and the same processes were advanced for 34 affordable homes in greenfield, ca. Pshhc completed the rehabilitation of a 65 unit affordable farmworker housing project in santa maria, ca, a 69 unit new construction affordable housing project in santa paula, ca, and a 68 unit new construction affordable housing project in san luis obispo, ca. Psshc continued construction of a 90 unit affordable housing project in oxnard, ca, an 89 unit affordable housing project in buellton, ca, and a 53 unit affordable housing project in grover beach, ca. Pshhc began construction of a 57 unit affordable housing project in ventura, ca and the first phase of rehabilitation of a 76 unit affordable housing project in san luis obispo, ca. In addition to the expenditures shown, additional costs of 52,014 were capitalized as predevelopment costs for affordable rental housing and self-help ownership projects.
$9,773,285 spent$13,756,035 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,557,991.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $98M to $120M (+23%).
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 11% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Shelly Higginbotham
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $697k → $597k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $420k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Duncan Group). These are real filings, and they are not money PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP raised.
From the IRS filings of PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 71% · 2019 75% · 2020 63% · 2021 57% · 2022 66% · 2023 78% — 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
38% of PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$48k
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 PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Part of a family of 73 related entities
- Villa la Esparanza LLC · disregarded
- Village at Los Carneros LLC · disregarded
- Pshhc College Park LLC · disregarded
- Sierra Madre Cottages LLC · disregarded
- Heath House LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP?
- PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,901,675 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($4,578,216). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $7,901,675 in grants to PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP?
- NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,578,216 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 36 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