California · Nonprofit
SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC
SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,785,401 to it, the largest being Sacramento Steps Forward ($14,846,872). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $0
What Sacramento Self-Help Housing Inc does
Mission
To assist persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find and retain stable and affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Operations closed down in late 2023. Organziation filed chapter 7 bankruptcy and case has been fully administered leading to this final terminating filing.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Permanent supportive housing (psh): psh provides housing to the chronically homeless, highly vulnerable individuals in sacramento county. The organization typically houses these individuals in four, five or six-bedroom master-leased houses, which are located close to shopping, public transporation and health services to encourage residents to adopt an independent lifestyle. All participants come from the streets, or emergency shelters, by referral from sacramento steps forward's coordinated entry system. Psh utilizes the housing first model to ensure the lowest possible barriers for these individuals. The organization addresses the high needs of participants through well rounded services and support provided by a case management team consisting of an on-site house leader, case manager, assistant director, and program director. House leaders, who are typically former homeless individuals, live on site, assist with rent collection, organize house assignments, hold weekly house meetings, report any issues to the program director and help develop a sense of community within the house. The case managed conducts intake assessments, makes weekly house visits, assists with problem…
$0 spentNavigation, counseling and supportive services: as one of the leading housing services agencie in the community, sacramento self-help housing (sshh) partners with various organizations to provide housing expertise to those in need of affordable housing and sustainable and safe housing. Sshh administers housing counseling and housing location assistance throughout sacramento country. Sshh also provides homeless outreach services in elk grove, citrus heights, arden arcade, carmichael, folsom, rancho cordova, north sacramento, south sacramento, and the american river parkway. Participants work in collaberation with trained housing counselors to complete a housing-barriers assessment intake and develop an individualized service plan with self-determined goals, and engage in a planned intervention process which enhances participant self-sufficiency. The intake assesses possible housing barriers such as credit challenges, evictions and legal concerns, along with financial and rental housing. Housing counselors not only provide assistance with housing location, but most importantly tailor housing referrals to reflect the needs of participants for low-barrier, affordable and available…
$0 spentRenter's helpline - sacramento self-help housing contracts with project sentinel and the california apartment associaiotn (caa) to provide a telephone and internet-based "renter's helpline." renter's helpline educates tenants and landlords on their rights and responsibilities, offers tenant-landlord dispute resolution, provided referrals and resources for legal assistance and identifies housing discrimination cases which are referred to project sentinel. The renter's helpline has a language line and brochures in six languages. During 2021, rhl attended 7,947 calls, helped 275 clients with relocations, referred 475 to project sentinel, and provided education to enarly 8,000 households. The organization's 2019-2020 annual intake report showed that 56% of households had extremely low income, 38% had below average income, and 4% had very low income, eighty one percent (81%) of households were or had a disabled family member.
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
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 $2.5M to $6.4M (+155%).
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 60% · 2018 83% · 2019 70% · 2020 59% · 2021 92% · 2022 88% · 2023 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $1.1M.
3 of 20 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.
From the IRS filings of SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC’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
SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SELF-HELP HOUSING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 88% · 2019 94% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% — 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
35% of SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP 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
98% of SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP 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. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP 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
0% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC?
- SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,785,401 to it, the largest being Sacramento Steps Forward ($14,846,872). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $15,785,401 in grants to SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC?
- Sacramento Steps Forward is the largest funder on record, with $14,846,872 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP 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.
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 20 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