California · Nonprofit
WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,350 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($435,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $584k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Without Walls Community Development Corporation does
Mission
Wowcdcs purpose is to develop affordable housing and to provide housing-related community support services for families in the western addition and fillmore neighborhoods in san francisco the most underserved and underinvested communities in the city.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Without Walls Community Development Corporation (wow-cdc) partnered with the mohcd and the mission economic development agency (meda) in the affordable housing market to save a 6-unit building in the wa from outside investors by using the ssp. The outside investors planned to ellis act the building, evict the residents, renovate it, adding two units, and re-open it at market rents. Of the six tenants, five are african-american, five are seniors. If evicted, the tenants would have had to leave san francisco. By purchasing the building from the investors, our group allowed these residents to remain in the city. Theyll return to their units upon renovation completion with two added units of affordable housing. Racial equity and economic inclusion were provided to 5 residents and maybe 7. 8 units of housing were added to the affordable housing stock ad infinitem, providing equity and inclusion on an ongoing basis.the organization began partnering with mccormick, baron salazar on the complete rebuilding of the plaza east development complex. Plaza east is a 193-unit affordable housing complex in the western addition that was first built in the 1970s. The complex was rehabilitated in…
$73,420 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,420.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $15k to $55k (+267%).
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.
0% of WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rev Henry L Davis
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $74k → $150k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
74% of WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $149k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $435k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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.
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $584,350 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($435,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $584,350 in grants to WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WITHOUT WALLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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.
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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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