GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Housing Assistance Council

Washington, DC · EIN 52-0939288. Reported 114 grants totalling $5,012,922 to 77 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

77organizations funded
$24,000median reported grant
$5,012,922granted, 2020-2023
33%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Housing Assistance Council, the IRS classifies it under housing & shelter rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE L800) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 77 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $24,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,993 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,670 and the largest $540,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
49 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
10 grants
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing CorporationLogan, UT$567,000222023
Chicago Title CompanyVisalia, CA$540,000112023
Self Help EnterprisesVisalia, CA$391,500112021
Rural Housing Development CorporationProvo, UT$229,500112021
Housing Development Alliance IncHazard, KY$207,500322023
Tunica County Community Development CoalitionTunica, MS$203,004212023
Peoples Self-Help Housing CorporationSn Luis Obisp, CA$148,500112023
Community Concepts IncorporatedLewiston, ME$135,000112021
Universal Housing Development CorpRussellville, AR$132,108112021
Community Housing Improvement Program IncorporatedChico, CA$121,500112021
Kentucky Mountain Land Title IncLondon, KY$117,000112023
Metro National TitlePrice, UT$108,000112023
Creative Compassion IncCrossville, TN$106,461542023
Adults and Youth United Development Association IncSan Elizario, TX$100,600332023
Business Research InstituteSikeston, MO$100,413112023
Rebuilding Together-Saratoga CountyBallston Spa, NY$78,000332023
Rebuilding Together Fargo-Moorhead Area IncWest Fargo, ND$73,000332023
Tennessees Community Assistance CorporationMorristown, TN$67,500112023
The Coachella Valley Housing CoalitionIndio, CA$67,500112021
North East Community Action CorporationBowling Green, MO$59,883332022
Community Action Commission of Fayette CountyWashington Ch, OH$54,000222022
Grow South DakotaSisseton, SD$54,000222022
Red Feather Development GroupFlagstaff, AZ$54,000332023
Cocopah Indian Housing and DevelopmentSomerton, AZ$50,000112023
Elisha MinistriesRuston, LA$50,000112023
Native Partnership for Housing IncGallup, NM$50,000112023
Navajo Townsite Community Development CorporationNavajo, NM$50,000112023
Home Works of America IncColumbia, SC$48,000222022
Good Works IncCoatesville, PA$44,891332023
New Foundations Development IncCalhoun, GA$42,600222022
Habitat for Humanity International IncRock Hill, SC$42,000222023
Transylvania Habitat for Humanity IncBrevard, NC$36,000222023
Tangi Community Development CorporationAmite, LA$32,993222023
Chesapeake Health Education Program IncPerryville, MD$32,000112023
Bethlehem Farm IncTalcott, WV$30,000222022
Bogalusa RebirthBogalusa, LA$30,000112020
Community Service Programs of West Alabama IncTuscaloosa, AL$30,000222021
Habitat for Humanity International IncFairfield, CA$30,000222021
Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin River Area IncBaraboo, WI$30,000222022
Lake Superior Community Development CorpLanse, MI$30,000222021
Ms Center for Police & SheriffsRaymond, MS$30,000222023
Swift County Housing and Redevelopment AuthorityBenson, MN$30,000222023
Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry IncWilmington, NC$30,000222021
Eureka Christian Health Outreach IncEureka Spgs, AR$28,350222023
Habitat for Humanity International IncSanta Ana, CA$26,000222021
Hope for AllMountain Home, AR$25,493112021
Blackbelt & Central Alabama Housing AuthoritySelma, AL$24,000112020
Grants & Strategic Corporate PartnershipsJohnson City, TN$24,000112020
Habitat for Humanity International IncTampa, FL$24,000112022
Habitat for Humanity International IncVisalia, CA$24,000112023
Housing Authority of Cherokee NationTahlequah, OK$24,000112020
Jerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County IncKingman, AZ$24,000112020
Pensacola Habitat for Humanity IncPensacola, FL$24,000112022
Rebuild UpstateGreenville, SC$24,000112022
Rebuilding Together - Twin CitiesSaint Paul, MN$24,000112022
Rebuilding Together Southwest IllinoisEdwardsville, IL$24,000112023
Southern Appalachian Labor School Foundation IncorporatedKincaid, WV$24,000112021
W a M Y Community Action IncBoone, NC$24,000112023
White Mountain Apache Housing AuthorityWhite River, AZ$24,000112020
Campbell Rogers & StacyMorehead, KY$20,700112023
Florida Non-Profit Housing IncSebring, FL$20,000112023
Habitat for Humanity International IncMaple Shade, NJ$16,000112022
Habitat for Humanity International IncBel Air, MD$12,926112022
Jobs Renewable Fund IncBoswell, IN$7,500112023
Kaniksu Land Trust IncSandpoint, ID$7,500112023
Catholic Charities Housing Services Diocese of YakimaYakima, WA$6,000112023
City of Two HarborsTwo Harbors, MN$6,000112023
Dublin Public Library IncDublin, TX$6,000112023
Eastern Shoshone TribeFort Washakie, WY$6,000112023
Friends of Chakchiuma SwampGrenada, MS$6,000112023
Guadalupe Economic Services CorporationLubbock, TX$6,000112020
Lakota FundKyle, SD$6,000112022
Milford Housing Development CorperationMilford, DE$6,000112020
Montgomery County Council for the Arts IncMt Sterling, KY$6,000112023
Northwest Regional Housing AuthorityHarrison, AR$6,000112021
Tierra Del Sol Housing CorporationLas Cruces, NM$6,000112021
Umpqua Community Development CorporationRoseburg, OR$6,000112021

26 of 77 (34%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 77 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.

Housing & Shelter
25 orgs
Community Improvement
7 orgs
Human Services
7 orgs
Environment
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Religion
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202020$435,273$24,000
202132$1,931,611$24,000
202221$410,072$24,000
202341$2,235,966$24,000

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

27% 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.

California
$1.3M
Utah
$904K
Kentucky
$351K
Mississippi
$239K
Tennessee
$198K
Arkansas
$192K
Missouri
$160K
Arizona
$152K

Down to the city

Visalia, CA
$956K
Logan, UT
$567K
Provo, UT
$230K
Hazard, KY
$208K
Tunica, MS
$203K
Sn Luis Obisp, CA
$148K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsEnterprise Community Partners Inc14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsLocal Initiatives Support Corporation13 shared recipientsNeighborhood Reinvestment Corporation12 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. 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 Housing Assistance Council's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: 1828 L St Nw 505, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 52-0939288 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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