California · Nonprofit
Urban Habitat Program
Urban Habitat Program (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,312,555 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($3,673,001). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Urban Habitat Program does
Mission
Urban Habitat democratizes power and advances equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color. We confront structural inequities impacting historically disenfranchised communities. Through strategic partnerships, we support increasing the power and capacity in low-income communities of color.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rising Juntos partnered with low-income parents, youth, and seniors to advance racial, economic and health justice in Contra Costa County. Our training program supported hundreds of residents to increase their confidence, leadership skills, and understanding of systemic inequities. Our strategic organizing engaged thousands of families to take collective action towards community priorities. We supported residents to engage with local decision-makers for equitable public investments and policies related to housing stability, quality parks, and access to needed services. Our efforts resulted in the passage of eviction protections in Antioch and stronger community leadership for housing stability countywide.
$561,103 spentof which $21,255 as grants$149,563 earned by the program37% of program spendingTransportation and Housing Justice Policy WorkOur primary focus for our transportation justice work was lobbying to get SB 63 passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor. The bill allows for a signature gathering campaign to place a funding measure on the November 2026 ballot in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. The bill was signed into law but our efforts for the revenue mechanism to be a gross receipt tax instead of a sales tax was not successful. As part of our housing justice work, we published a report on the dire circumstances of farmworker housing along the San Mateo County coast based on interviews with 22 farmworkers. (Continued on Schedule O)
$549,041 spent$30,625 earned by the program37% of program spendingLeadership DevelopmentThe Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) trains and supports low-income people of color to serve on local and regional boards and commissions. In 2025, we convened our 17th BCLI cohort with 16 fellows representing five counties throughout the Bay Area. 56% of the 2025 fellows are serving on a commission. We also hosted our new program to train and support equity champions working inside government departments for a second year. Stepping into Your Leadership: A Learning Lab to Support Public Servants, had 24 participants from five counties, with three of the participants representing regional agencies. They participated in three webinars and four in-person sessions.
$386,679 spentof which $20,419 as grants$26,750 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,496,823.
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 $7.0M to $9.4M (+34%).
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: 2020 10% · 2022 4% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Urban Habitat Program’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Robert Phillips
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $1.5M.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Urban Habitat Program’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
Urban Habitat Program has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 Urban Habitat Program.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 46% · 2019 34% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
43% of Urban Habitat Program's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
74% of Urban Habitat Program's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Urban Habitat Program runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Urban Habitat Program
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 Urban Habitat Program: 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 Urban Habitat Program?
- Urban Habitat Program (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,312,555 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($3,673,001). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Urban Habitat Program have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $16,312,555 in grants to Urban Habitat Program, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Urban Habitat Program?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $3,673,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Urban Habitat Program 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 42 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