New York · Nonprofit
PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC
PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,710,220 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($4,100,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $-640002
What People United for Sustainable Housing Inc does
Mission
People united for sustainable housing, inc. (push buffalo) helps to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance economic and environmental justice in buffalo.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing and community developmentpush has developed an innovative program with documented effectiveness to acquire and rehabilitate residential housing and vacant land in buffalo. The program has accomplished renovations of multiple units. Push also integrates "green" development into each of its development projects, installation of green infrastructure such as on-demand water heaters, radiant floor heating, solar panels, and geothermal heating systems. In 2024 49 units across 14 sites were put into service.
$2,382,806 spentof which $2,030,392 as grants57% of program spendingCommunity energy assists homeowners with energy efficiency/weatherization, clean heating and cooling, rooftop and commercial solar. To help new yorkers access and navigate opportunities in the clean energy economy nyserda created clean energy hubs. Push is the western new york clean energy hub serving five counties. Push also participates in the following programs - buffalo east homeowner improvement program (behip) is a grant program that provides financial assistance for home repairs to low-income homeowners on buffalo east side, 16 projects were completed. Warm and dry is a program aimed at helping low-moderate-income homeowners address home repair needs that ensure a warm and dry living environment, 5 houses were completed. 405 engagements leading to a referral.
$612,566 spent15% of program spendingCommunity organizing and youth centerpush organizes residents to create and implement an action plan for improving the neighborhood. Push strives to build a democratic, action-oriented organization capable of addressing the lack of living wage jobs and poor housing conditions that may exist in the neighborhood. Push holds leadership training and planning meetings. Leaders also plan public campaigns to promote corporate accountability in the realm of sustainable urban development and to embed the push model and objectives in legislation and public programs. The push buffalo community hub serves as a drop-in community center for the public, serving individuals of all ages. There are a range of activities and resources for people to engage in from computers, homework help, games, music, events, and programming.
$593,213 spent$13,528 earned by the program14% of program spendingRental property managementto provide housing accommodations for persons and families of low income in buffalo, new york. Push manages a portfolio of 163 affordable rental apartments across 29 sites in buffalo. Its portfolio includes multi-unit sites, elder apartments, and single unit sites.
$574,974 spent$56,733 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,163,559.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $4.1M (+164%).
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 15% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 15% · 2021 4% · 2022 5% · 2023 10% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Dawn Wells-Clyburn
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Anderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $823k → $3.0M.
12 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $3.4M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Rowboat Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 45% · 2019 26% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 21% — 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
48% of PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC has grown faster 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 PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.6M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$20.6M
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 UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 8 related entities
- Buffalo Neighborhood Stabilization Compa · exempt
- Massachusetts Avenue Housing Development · exempt
- Massachusetts Avenue Sustainable Housing · exempt
- 417 Housing Development Fund Company · exempt
- S77 LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC?
- PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,710,220 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($4,100,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $24,710,220 in grants to PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 63 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