Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE
VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,375 to it, the largest being MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ($335,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $851k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Virginia Housing Alliance does
Mission
Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the Virginia Housing Alliance (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing effective housing policy across the commonwealth. Vha educates the public about virginia's housing challenges, advocates for proven solutions, and supports the professionals and organizations working to ensure everyone has access to safe, stable, and affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program service area 1 - statewide policy, advocacy, and education vha leads statewide efforts to expand affordable housing and end homelessness through research, public education, coalition-building, and advocacy at the state and federal levels. During the 2025 general assembly session, vha educated legislators and advocated in support of its policy agenda, including hb 2245, enacted legislation requiring tax assessors to use the income approach when valuing affordable housing properties. Vha participated in the department of taxation's implementation stakeholder group, helping develop a standard income-and-expense reporting form and training for both assessors and affordable housing providers. Vha also supported the 4 million expansion of the housing opportunity tax credit (to 64 million annually) and continued capacity building funding for continuum of care agencies. Vha advanced the second year of its 5,000 families campaign, a cross-sector public education initiative to establish state-funded rental assistance for low-income families with school-age children. The campaign's first general assembly press conference generated television, radio, and print coverage reaching an…
$234,077 spentof which $17,500 as grants30% of program spendingProgram service area 2 - capacity building (americorps vista) vha strengthens virginia's nonprofit housing sector by placing full-time americorps vista members at organizations addressing housing instability and homelessness across the commonwealth. During the 2024-2025 service year, vha's vista cohort provided capacity-building services to 96 organizations, created 121 guidebooks, manuals, and policies, trained 207 volunteers and staff, implemented 44 new systems and databases, and generated 967,304 in grants and in-kind donations for host sites. Vha invested 2,539 hours of professional development in its members, including data analysis certification, grant writing, and design thinking training; strengthening the pipeline of emerging professionals entering virginia's affordable housing workforce. In august 2025, vha onboarded its 2025-2026 cohort of 15 members, expanding to new host sites in richmond, fredericksburg, and danville.
$227,774 spent30% of program spendingProgram service area 3 - housing leadership institute vha's housing leadership institute (hli) is a 10-month intensive program preparing mid-career professionals for executive leadership in the affordable housing field, opening leadership pathways that have historically been siloed within the industry. In march 2025, hli graduated its inaugural cohort following a two-day capstone session in richmond, where participants presented five-year career development plans; participant feedback described the program as transformative to their professional growth. In june 2025, vha launched hli's second cohort: 15 leaders selected through a competitive statewide process, representing 162 combined years of housing experience drawn from every region of the commonwealth and from sectors spanning homelessness services, financial institutions, property management, and housing development.
$214,168 spent$29,363 earned by the program28% of program spendingProgram service area 4 - education, events, and training vha delivered 18 training sessions in 2025 reaching more than 1290 participants on topics including landlord-tenant law, reasonable accommodations, eviction prevention, and ethical storytelling, with support from the virginia department of behavioral health and developmental services. During the week of october 20, vha convened its two annual conferences and 37th annual awards ceremony: the housing credit conference, supported by 99 sponsors, brought together 491 developers, tax professionals, housing authorities, and nonprofits working in the low- income housing tax credit program, and housing virginia's most vulnerable 384 frontline service providers for training on the intersections of housing, health, and homelessness response. The annual awards recognized excellence across six categories from a field of 34 nominations.
$94,871 spent$3,885 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $770,890.
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 2022 to 2023, from $535k to $970k (+81%).
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 27% · 2018 16% · 2019 12% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 13% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $29k → $154k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $832k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Low Income Housing Coalition). These are real filings, and they are not money VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE’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
VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 75% · 2019 91% · 2020 71% · 2021 50% · 2022 74% · 2023 81% — 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
43% of VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.
Government funding VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $153k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$153k
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.
Organizations like VIRGINIA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Virginia Housing Coalition Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA 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 VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE?
- VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,375 to it, the largest being MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ($335,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $851,375 in grants to VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE?
- MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 12 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