New York · Nonprofit
URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC
URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,659,147 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES NYC ($1,136,378). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Urban Homesteading Assistance (U-Hab) Inc does
Mission
Uhab empowers low-to-moderate-income residents to take control of their housing and enhances communities by creating strong tenant associations and lasting affordable co-ops.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training: the training department continued offering classes to hdfcs through our hpd contract and contracts with affordable housing developers. Training topics span areas from physical and financial management to governance to regulatory compliance. Examples include, energy efficiency: communicating with your board about energy projects, environmental justice in nyc, hdfcs and the housing movement, help the secretary take minutes, can your co-op go smoke free?, ppp workshop, and rent + mortgage cancellation act 2020.
$3,580,656 spent$1,315,244 earned by the program74% of program spendingTenant organizing: over the years, uhab organizers have reached out to and engaged thousands of tenants in over 700 buildings across new york city. Beginning in 2018, the department focused its efforts on organizing tenant associations in east brooklyn (brownsville, east flatbush and east new york) in partnership with brooklyn legal services, and launched a tenant-led neighborhood group called hope (housing organizers for people empowerment). As part of the citywide stabilizing nyc initiative, we organize in buildings owned by predatory equity landlords and collaborate with other housing organizing groups in brooklyn to develop borough-wide campaigns. This year, we continued to develop a base of tenants' associations in eastern brooklyn while supporting city and statewide efforts towards housing justice in new york. Our lead organizer and two tenant organizers supported 12 buildings containing 1089 units in developing campaigns to win repairs from their landlords and to stop displacement through tenant-centered campaigns. Additionally, we started holding our first ever know your rights workshops focusing on the new good cause eviction protections won by the tenant movement last…
$675,271 spent$252,635 earned by the program14% of program spendingMember services provides tools and support that directly save money for housing development fund corporations (hdfc) co-operatives, a unique type of affordable housing, in order to sustain the community of hdfc members and families. Hdfcs are operated and managed by their residents to remain affordable in perpetuity. Uhab's climate and resiliency team connects co-op residents with resources and access to energy efficiency measures to keep housing safe, healthy and affordable. Membership engagement: there are 400 hdfc co-ops who've joined uhab to use co-op accounting programs, enroll in bulk purchasing programs, and access benefits such as discounted registration rates for the cnyc housing conference. Bulk purchasing programsuhab fuel: uhab engages hdfcs to join our bulk fuel purchasing program, in partnership with energo to save on delivery of oil and natural gas for heating sources, and to connect to energy efficiency programs and resources. There is monthly income for this program.flip insurance: while the insurance market continues to be a hard market, the flip insurance program as of march 2025 insures 367 co-ops totaling 5,667 units with tiv $2,090,099,478.co-op accounting…
$588,871 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,844,798.
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 2022 to 2023, from $23M to $28M (+23%).
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 26% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 7% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% · 2024 40% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Margaret Brown
Executive director
Board chair
John Warren
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $0 → $560k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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 HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 87% · 2021 67% · 2022 68% · 2023 27% — 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
33% of URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
75% of URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- Homeownership Lending LLC · disregarded
- Uhab Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- Ridgewood Bushwick Homesteading Assistance Hdfc · exempt
- 186 East 104th Street Hdfc · corp_trust
- 473 West 145th Street Hdfc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC?
- URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,659,147 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES NYC ($1,136,378). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,659,147 in grants to URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES NYC is the largest funder on record, with $1,136,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 23 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