Housing Works

What it reported doing in 2024

During fiscal years 2025 and 2024, housing works served a total of 1,452 and 1,185 individuals, respectively, with lived experience of chronic homelessness. This included 1,175 and 894 individuals living in scattered-site or project-based housing, as well as 277 and 291 individuals who received outreach and housing navigation services in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The organization also helped 260 and 207 individuals move into permanent housing in 2025 and 2024, respectively. Housing works serves as the on-site services provider for nine affordable housing developments with a total of 1,170 and 548 units of site-based housing in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The organization's housing retention rate was 98.8% in 2025 and 97% in 2024. The food boost program distributed a total of 54,240 and 13,550 food boxes, vegan food bags, and sack lunches in 2025 and 2024, respectively.services were delivered in geographic areas throughout los angeles county, including hollywood, west hollywood, pasadena, downtown, the san fernando valley, the san gabriel valley, east, central and south los angeles.permanent supportive housing - the organization works with both for-profit and nonprofit housing developers and property owners to create permanent supportive housing options in los angeles county for low-income individuals and families. These include securing units in site-based affordable housing developments, as well as scattered site units.home first program - assists people experiencing chronic homelessness who are diagnosed with serious mental illness (or who are multi-diagnosed with mental illness, addiction, HIV and/or other chronic health conditions) to find, secure, and sustain permanent supportive housing. Services are designed to support participants' ability to retain permanent housing and thrive in their community. They are delivered by the organization's mobile integrated services team (mist) and/or via linkages and referrals by the mobile integrated services team to local service providers. These services include case management, 24/7 crisis response, counseling, psychiatric care, medication management, money management (including services as representative payee), health care, substance use disorder treatment and recovery services, benefits advocacy, employment readiness and search assistance, community-building and recreational/social activities.enriched services - program staff assigned to single-site housing developments coordinate a broad range of services to improve the quality of life for individuals and to build community among residents. These services include outreach and engagement of residents in services, scheduling and coordination of on-site events such as health fairs, social activities and workshops, interfacing with the food boost staff for food distribution events and promoting on-site events and activities.empowerment works - assists participants in permanent supportive housing to access paid and volunteer work opportunities, as well as community integration activities such as theatre, sporting events, recreational activities, concerts and celebrations. Food boost nutrition assistance & distribution program - provides weekly supplemental groceries and served meals to housing works' most ill, vulnerable and food-insecure participants and coordinates monthly food distribution events at singlesite settings.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: $23.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings