California · Nonprofit
SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE
SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,047 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($850,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $466k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $553k
What Sacramento Housing Alliance does
Mission
Sacramento Housing Alliance advocates for safe stable accessible and affordable homes for homeless and lower income people in healthy communities through education leadership and policy change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SHA was founded in 1989 and incorporated in 1991 by a group of non-profit developers a legal services attorney a homeless service provider and an employee from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. From its inception SHA was a membership organization with the board composed primarily of people working in housing rights homeless services and civil rights fields and representing dues-paying organizations. As a collaborator SHA has brought together organizations of activists who represent communities that are experiencing system impacts. Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee Sacramento Services Not Sweeps Coalition Building Healthy Communities Sacramento Investment without Displacement Housing California SAC ACT and many other individual residents activists scholars and independent researchers with lived experiences of housing insecurity partner with SHA to adopt a community centered approach and build collective power for housing rights. With over 5,500 people experiencing homelessness on any given night 81% of the countys extremely low-income households or those who earn less than one-third the areas median income already pay more than half their…
$220,459 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
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$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,459.
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 $342k to $563k (+64%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Cook
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $110k → $185k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Francisco Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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 HOUSING ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 HOUSING ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 HOUSING ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE
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
85% 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 HOUSING ALLIANCE: 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 HOUSING ALLIANCE?
- SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,047 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($850,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,216,047 in grants to SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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