Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES
REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,816,047 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($5,702,018). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Regional Housing Legal Services does
Mission
We work alongside communities in the fight to create and protect safe, affordable homes. We provide legal representation for groups serving those with low incomes, share knowledge, unite partners, and advocate for policy changes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule oRegional Housing Legal Services program accomplishments for 2024-2025Regional Housing Legal Services (rhls) works alongside communities in the fight to create and protect safe, affordable homes. We provide legal representation for groups serving those with low incomes, share knowledge, unite partners, and advocate for policy changes. Rhls is committed to integrating racial equity in all aspects of our work, in pursuit of achieving racial justice in housing, utilities, and community/economic development. We believe all people deserve housing that is healthy, safe, and affordable in a community of choice where they can thrive. Rhls has helped create or preserve 11,533 units of affordable housing including $2.1 billion in financing since 1973. Our core activities include: providing comprehensive legal and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations engaging in the development and preservation of affordable housing. Engaging in systems change through administrative advocacy, research, data analysis, and education that creates or bolsters resources for affordable housing development and preservation; increases protections for low-income tenants; and promotes equitable…
$2,479,147 spent64% of program spendingSee schedule opulp's program service accomplishments for 2024-2025the pennsylvania utility law project ("pulp") is a statewide legal services project of Regional Housing Legal Services and is a member program of the pennsylvania legal aid network (plan). As the designated specialized project of the pennsylvania legal aid network for utility issues, pulp's mission is to secure just and equitable access to utility services for pennsylvanians experiencing poverty.pulp's activities include: representing, as direct counsel or co-counsel, qualifying low-income residential utility customers and consumer groups comprised primarily of low-income pennsylvanians and/or that advocate on behalf of low-income pennsylvanians. Advocating for the interests of low-income utility consumers before the pennsylvania public utility commission, the pennsylvania department of human services, and other state and federal agencies that administer programs or have regulatory oversight on energy or utility matters affecting low-income pennsylvanians. Providing education, information, training, and support to social, legal, and housing service providers; non-profit community groups; low-income consumers;…
$1,391,418 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,870,565.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $3.6M (+51%).
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 48% · 2018 59% · 2019 65% · 2020 73% · 2021 73% · 2022 66% · 2023 57% · 2024 47% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $149k → $2.1M.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $12M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services). These are real filings, and they are not money REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES’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
REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 67% · 2019 85% · 2020 23% · 2021 65% · 2022 67% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
79% of REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $655k 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
REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Commonwealth Housing Development Corporation · exempt
- Commonwealth Housing Legal Services · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES: 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 REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES?
- REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,816,047 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($5,702,018). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $10,816,047 in grants to REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES?
- PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $5,702,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 26 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