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THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC

THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,568,778 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,025,669). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$13M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$1.1M
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What The Housing Collective Inc does

Mission

The housing collective harnesses the power of collective impact to provide access to safe and affordable housing and ensure housing stability for all.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The housing collective provides backbone support to regional "opening doors" initiatives that coordinate local efforts to prevent and end homelessness. Activities include system coordination, technical assistance, fiduciary services and facilitation of community partnerships to improve housing outcomes.

    $11,313,985 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. The organization partners with municipalities, nonprofit agencies, and housing stakeholders to advance housing access and affordability. Activities include convening cross-sector partners, providing technical assistance, and coordinating data-driven strategies to expand local housing options. Efforts strengthen capacity at the municipal and regional levels to achieve sustainable housing systems.

  3. The housing collective operates the housing innovation lab to test and scale data-informed, community-driven solutions that improve housing system performance. The lab leads research, pilot projects, and training efforts focused on systems change, data integration, and engagement of people with lived experience of homelessness. Results inform statewide policy and practice improvements.

  4. The corporation supports opening doors fairfield county, the regional hud designated continuum of care system through funding by hud's continuum of care homeless assistance program. Activities include designing and carrying out a collabortive process for the development of an application to hud; evaluating the outcomes of projects for which funds are awarded; and developing a regionwide process involving the coordination of multiple stakeholders for ending homelessness.the corporation promotes cross sector collaboration between the region's workforce development board ("the workplace inc.") and the area's prominent homeless providers that include alpha community services/cccymca and new reach, new haven. The goal of supportive services for veteran families ("ssvf") is to help veteran families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, quickly regain stability in permanent housing. Identifying housing opportunities and providing technical assistance, the corporation ensures successful implementation of this employment/housing model.the corporation is a subcontractor of operation hope who receives funding from the connecticut department of mental health & addiction services to…

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,313,985.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($257k)2018 Revenue 131 ($1.4M) Expenses 122 ($1.5M) Net assets 84 ($216k)2019 Revenue 178 ($1.9M) Expenses 162 ($2.0M) Net assets 81 ($209k)2020 Revenue 471 ($5.2M) Expenses 429 ($5.2M) Net assets 74 ($189k)2021 Revenue 562 ($6.2M) Expenses 497 ($6.0M) Net assets 132 ($338k)2022 Revenue 857 ($9.4M) Expenses 763 ($9.2M) Net assets 195 ($500k)2023 Revenue 1057 ($12M) Expenses 969 ($12M) Net assets 145 ($373k)2024 Revenue 1157 ($13M) Expenses 1014 ($12M) Net assets 415 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (1157)Expenses (1014)Net assets (415)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $6.9M (+69%).

$646k
$599k
$833k
$2.8M
$4.1M
$6.9M
$7.1M
$8.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 92% · 2019 91% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 91% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 268 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$113k
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−$40k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$20k
’20
$149k
’21
$162k
’22
−$127k
’23
$428k
’24
3.6
months of
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

David Rich

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212121212161818
Joined·+4+0+0+0+13+2+0
No longer listed·4000900
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $65k → $784k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE 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

THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

71% 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 THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC.

22%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 76% · 2019 58% · 2020 35% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — 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

45% of THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

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CT
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NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · above the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $62.0M on record — $22.0M federal, $40.0M state.

Federal$22.0M
grants $22.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$22.0M
State$40.0M
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Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$18.1M
  • State Aid Grants$14.1M
  • Client Services-General$5.2M
  • Client Subsidies$1.9M
  • Trnsfr Grant Expend-St Agency$491k
  • Board & Care Of Clients$198k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC?
THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,568,778 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,025,669). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,568,778 in grants to THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC?
FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 29 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