Affordable Housing Access Inc
Newport Beach, CA · EIN 31-1682049. Reported 77 grants totalling $3,208,200 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Affordable Housing Access Inc, the IRS classifies it under housing & shelter rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE L20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 36% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $363,815. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Access Inc | Orange, CA | $1,143,957 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Engagement Inc | Newport Beach, CA | $519,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brackens Kitchen Inc | Garden Grove, CA | $145,439 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Miracle Messages | San Francisco, CA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wiseplace | Santa Ana, CA | $113,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Thomas House Temporary Shelter | Garden Grove, CA | $109,554 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Standup for Kids | Decatur, GA | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pathways to Independence | Los Alamitos, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Precious Life Shelter Inc | Los Alamitos, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Literacy Project Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $50,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hart Community Home Inc | Fullerton, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County | Placentia, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kingdom Development Inc | Riverside, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Our Fathers Table | San Juan Capo, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Womens Transitional Living Ctr Inc | Fullerton, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| CASA Teresa Inc | Orange, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Empower Yolo Inc | Woodland, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley | Fountain Vly, CA | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Family Promise of Orange County Inc | Anaheim, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County | Everett, WA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hekab Be Biblioteca | Newport Beach, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services | Sacramento, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beach Cities Interfaith Services Inc | Huntingtn Bch, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Heartway Inc | Nevada City, CA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friendly Center Inc | Orange, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Golf Fore Africa | Scottsdale, AZ | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | Irvine, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Taller San Jose Hope Builders | Santa Ana, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Creative Women of Pinnacle Peak | Scottsdale, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding the Soul Foundation | Oceanside, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jordan Thomas Foundation Inc | Brentwood, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kennedy Commission | Irvine, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lauras House | Aliso Viejo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Moms Orange County | Santa Ana, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Night Ministry | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Support the Enlisted Project Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Chrysalis Center | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oneoc | Santa Ana, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Planned Parenthood-Orange and San Bernardino Counties Inc | Anaheim, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 42 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- CASA Teresa
DONATION FOR WINDOWS REPLACEMENT BALANCE & PAINTING - Miracle Messages
DIRECT PROGRAMS & OPERATING EXPENSES - Csuf Philanthropic
2021 GRANT AWARD FOR CSUF GCAC - Feeding the Soul Foundation
OKC PACKAGED FOODS - VILLA ESCONDIDO - The Kennedy Commission
2021 DONATION & MEMBERSHIP - The Literacy Project
IGNITING POTENTIAL FUNDRAISER
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $856,616 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $835,001 | $21,500 |
| 2023 | 17 | $748,458 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $768,125 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
94% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Affordable Housing Access Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3920 Birch Street 103, Newport Beach, CA, 92660.
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