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Who funds affordable housing organizations in California? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

Name: affordable housing grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 182 grants totaling $110.1 million went to affordable housing organizations-related work in California. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of affordable housing organizations in California, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
BRIDGE HOUSING VENTURES INC	1	$20.1 million
EDEN HOUSING INC	10	$14.2 million
CORINTHIAN HOUSE RESIDENCE INC	2	$14.0 million
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC	30	$8.3 million
RHF HOLDINGS GROUP INC	1	$6.2 million
Altadena Builds Back Foundation	1	$5.3 million
DEW FOUNDATION	1	$4.8 million
Community Housing Inc	1	$3.2 million
MID-PENINSULA BAKER PARK INC	1	$2.9 million
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT	12	$2.5 million

Across all funders: 182 grants, $110.1 million total, median grant $79,230.

Largest recipients in California

Recipient	Grants	Total
BRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION	10	$24.3 million
MIDPEN HOUSING CORPORATION	13	$17.7 million
RETIREMENT HOUSING FOUNDATION	3	$8.6 million
ABODE SERVICES	1	$7.0 million
Beacon Housing Inc	1	$5.3 million
EDEN SOUTH BAY INC	1	$5.1 million
Affordable Housing for Artists	2	$4.8 million
HUMANGOOD AFFORDABLE HOUSING	4	$4.8 million
NEW DEL NIDO LP	1	$3.8 million
CARING Housing Ministries	1	$3.2 million

Open federal opportunities addressing affordable housing organizations (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in California can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "affordable housing"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: affordable housing, housing development, rental assistance.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
HHS-2026-ACF-OCS-EAH-0027	Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demonstration	Administration for Children and Families - OCS	$150,000 to $300,000	08/24/2026
CPD-2600-DC-0098	FY26 Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing)	Department of Housing and Urban Development	$5.0 million to $10.0 million	08/03/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 235 listings mentioning "affordable housing organizations" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.