Minnesota · Nonprofit
WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST
WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,611 to it, the largest being TARGET FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $268k
- Net assets
- $25M
What West Hennepin Affordable Housing Land Trust does
Mission
West Hennepin Affordable Housing Land Trust (whahlt) dba homes within reach (hwr) was created in may 2001; a community land trust whose service area is the 44 communities of suburban hennepin county; and currently active in fourteen (14) communities. West Hennepin Affordable Housing Land Trust vision is to transform people's lives through homeownership. The mission is to use the community land trust practice to provide affordable homeownership for working families that would be otherwise unable to purchase a home in suburban hennepin county, offering both communities and homebuyers the ability to sustain permanently affordable homeownership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Housing is a multiplier, a foundational need that shapes education, health, and economic mobility. Homes within reach (hwr) continues to see how affordable homeownership stabilizes workforce families, strengthens community participation, and builds long-term assets. Through the community land trust (clt) model, hwr acquires and rehabilitates homes and sells the improvements to households earning below 80% of area median income (ami). This shared-equity structure preserves affordability in perpetuity, ensuring each home remains accessible to low- and moderate-income households at every resale.as of december 31, 2025, West Hennepin Affordable Housing Land Trust (whahlt), doing business as homes within reach, has placed 243 properties into trust and assisted 293 families, with an average household income of 58.6% ami, in purchasing homes across 18 suburban hennepin county communities: bloomington, brooklyn park, crystal, deephaven, edina, eden prairie, golden valley, long lake, maple grove, maple plain, minnetonka, new hope, orono, plymouth, richfield, st. Bonifacius, st. Louis park, and wayzata. Growth continues to be driven by strong city partnerships and buyer demand from…
$239,644 spent$-748,485 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $239,644.
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 2023 to 2024, from $27M to $33M (+19%).
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 119% · 2018 131% · 2019 149% · 2020 132% · 2021 130% · 2022 118% · 2023 99% · 2024 103%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
120% of WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Brenda Lano-Wolke
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $31k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST’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
WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST: 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 WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST?
- WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,611 to it, the largest being TARGET FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $267,611 in grants to WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST?
- TARGET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST HENNEPIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 5 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