California · Nonprofit
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,742,955 to it, the largest being Sacramento Steps Forward ($2,519,416). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $759k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $445k
What Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc does
Mission
Develop healing communities that are solution-focused, Participant-Driven and Strength-based, where homeless people help themselves - and each other - through their transition from the streets to self-sustainability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Housing Stability: 97% of participants at Quinn Cottages remained housed, while the remaining 3% transitioned to permanent housing. Alumni actively engage in program events and activities, maintaining their own resident council. Benefits Enrollment: Within 60 days of occupancy, 100% of participants applied for mainstream entitlement benefits. Our staff provides ongoing support throughout this process, including referrals to SSI advocates when necessary. Vocational Skills Assessment: Within 90 days of entry, all participants complete a vocational skills and literacy assessment during intake. Those with identified barriers to employment are supported in taking action within 90 days. We have enhanced our intake procedures to include this assessment and increased the availability of on-site workshops, including resume building, interview skills, mock job interviews, study groups, and tutoring. We also offer extensive employment readiness workshops and encourage participants to access external employment and educational services, such as vocational rehabilitation, Pride, One-Stop Shops, and other agencies and schools. Comprehensive Assessments: Within nine months of residency,…
$622,419 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $622,419.
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 $346k to $507k (+46%).
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 61% · 2018 85% · 2019 42% · 2020 43% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 41% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kristen Martin
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $361k → $329k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 15 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
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 91% · 2019 89% · 2020 96% · 2021 88% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — 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
56% of Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
99% of Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Sacramento Cottage 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Sacramento Cottage 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 Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc?
- Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,742,955 to it, the largest being Sacramento Steps Forward ($2,519,416). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,742,955 in grants to Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc?
- Sacramento Steps Forward is the largest funder on record, with $2,519,416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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