Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$959,685

Total expenses

$987,609

Contributions and grants received

$811,328

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$147,614

Investment income

$743

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$581,809

Total liabilities, end of year

$148,425

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$433,384

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$802,236

Management and general expenses

$121,927

Fundraising expenses

$63,446

Program service expenses (Part III)

$802,236

Program services were 81.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• HOUSINGLINK HAS BEEN PROVIDING AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING INFORMATION IN THE TWIN CITIES FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AND IS RECOGNIZED AS THE PRIMARY PLACE TO ACCESS HOUSING OPTIONS FOR LOW-TO-MODERATE INCOME RENTERS. IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING EASY ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING WAITING LISTS AND VACANCIES, HOUSINGLINK IS AN ESTEEMED DATA PROVIDER TO A LARGE GROUP OF STAKEHOLDERS THROUGHOUT MINNESOTA. CENTRALIZED, EASY ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUPPLY AND LOCATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INFORMATION IS VITAL TO ENSURE THAT COMMUNITY DECISIONS ARE WELL-INFORMED, AND THAT LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS ARE EMPOWERED TO OBTAIN HOUSING IN THEIR LOCATIONS OF CHOICE. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O.HOUSINGLINK (WWW.HOUSINGLINK.ORG) CONNECTS RENTERS TO THE RELEVANT, VITAL INFORMATION THEY NEED TO FIND THE APPROPRIATE AFFORDABLE HOME FOR THEIR HOUSEHOLD AND STREAMLINES THE PROCESS FOR ADVERTISING UNITS TO RENTERS. SPECIFICALLY, OUR HOUSING SEARCH TOOL IS ONLINE AND ALLOWS USERS TO FIND AFFORDABLE VACANCIES AND WAITING LISTS. OVER 1.7 MILLION SEARCHES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING WERE PERFORMED USING OUR WEBSITE DURING 2025. TYPICALLY, RENTERS ARE ABLE TO LOCATE THE INFORMATION THEY NEED IN LESS THAN FOUR MINUTES.THE FOLLOWING HOUSINGLINK ACTIVITY OCCURRED IN 2025: * 1,649,178 SEARCHES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING * 22,120 AFFORDABLE VACANCIES & WAITING LIST OPENINGS LISTED * 3,768,923 PAGE VIEWS OF HOUSING RESOURCES * 108,895 VISITS FOR SUBSIDIZED HOUSING INFORMATION * 173,924 VIEWS OF HOUSING AUTHORITY WAITING LIST STATUS * 91% OF LISTINGS THAT WOULD CONSIDER A SECTION 8 VOUCHER IN 2025 * 495 FAIR HOUSING VIDEO VIEWS * 618,631 NOTIFICATIONS OF HOUSING OPENINGS SENT THROUGH IN 2025HOUSINGLINK PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE SUPPLY AND LOCATION OF PUBLICLY FUNDED AFFORDABLE HOUSING THROUGH REPORTS AND A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ONLINE DATABASE CALLED STREAMS. STREAMS (WWW.HOUSINGLINK.ORG/STREAMS) INCLUDES PROPERTIES AND AFFORDABLE UNITS WITH PUBLIC FINANCING. STREAMS IS USED BY RESEARCHERS AND COMMUNITY PLANNERS AND POLICYMAKERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT PLANNING. OUR DATA AND RESEARCH CAPACITY LED US TO PRODUCE THE HOUSING MEASURES REPORT FOR THE MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION. STREAMS DATA IS UPDATED ANNUALLY TO REFLECT THE MOST CURRENT INFORMATION. WE PUBLISH TWIN CITIES RENTAL REVENUE, A SUBSCRIBER-BASED QUARTERLY REPORT THAT COMPARES MARKET RATE SHADOW (RENTAL HOUSES, DUPLEXES, CONDOS, AND TOWNHOMES) AND APARTMENT MARKET RENTS FOR THE SEVEN COUNTY METRO AREA. THIS REPORT IS TURNING INTO A SUCCESSFUL EARNED INCOME VENTURE FOR HOUSINGLINK. WE AVERAGE 30 SUBSCRIBERS ANNUALLY; MAINLY RECURRING SUBSCRIPTIONS WHICH HELP SUPPORT OUR GENERAL OPERATIONS. HOUSINGLINK ALSO PUBLISHES A RENTAL HOUSING BRIEF FOR THE CITIES OF MINNEAPOLIS AND SAINT PAUL WHICH TRACKS KEY METRICS ON AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING IN THE COMMUNITY TO INFORM POLICYMAKING. HOUSINGLINK'S STRATEGIC PLAN INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR 2022-2026. * PURPOSEFULLY ARTICULATE THE VALUE AND BENEFIT OF HOUSINGLINK. * USING NEW AND EXISTING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, CONTINUE EXPANDING AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING OPTIONS. * MAKE HOUSINGLINK DATA AND RESEARCH MORE ACCESSIBLE TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RENTAL HOUSING. * DEEPEN CONNECTIONS TO AND DEVELOP RESOURCES FOR DIY PROPERTY OWNERS. * CONTINUE STRATEGIC EXPANSION. * BUILD INTENTIONAL CONNECTIONS AND DEEPEN WORK IN GREATER MINNESOTA.

  Expenses $590,767 · Revenue $42,407

• THE BEYOND BACKGROUNDS PROGRAM HELPS RENTERS WITH BARRIERS (CRIMINAL CONVICTION, EVICTION, BAD CREDIT) BY PAIRING THE RENTER WITH A LANDLORD RISK MITIGATION FUND TO HELP THEM GET INTO A RENTAL HOME. THERE HAVE BEEN 1,247 RENTERS HOUSED, WITH 11% RISK FUND CLAIMS PAID TO LANDLORDS SINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2022.WAITLIST CENTRAL TOOL CENTRALIZES AFFORDABLE HOUSING WAITING LISTS, GIVING RENTERS ONE ACCESS POINT AND TRANSPARENCY INTO THEIR STATUS ON WAITING LISTS WHILE EASING THE BURDEN ON PROPERTY OWNERS BY SHIFTING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WAITLIST MANAGEMENT FROM OWNERS TO HOUSINGLINK.RENTER EDUCATION: THROUGH OUR WEBSITE'S EDUCATIONAL TOOLS WE EDUCATE RENTERS ABOUT FAIR HOUSING AND THEIR RENTER RIGHTS.PROPERTY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION: THROUGH PROPERTY OWNER/MANAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT, WE ENCOURAGE PROPERTIES TO ACCEPT VOUCHERS AND EXPAND THEIR HOUSING VACANCIES TO RENTERS THEY MIGHT NORMALLY DENY. HOUSINGLINK DEEPENS RELATIONSHIPS WITH PROPERTY OWNERS BY OFFERING INTERACTIVE LANDLORD EDUCATION RESOURCES ON OUR WEBSITE.HOUSINGLINK DATA: HOUSINGLINK MAINTAINS RELIABLE THIRD-PARTY DATA REGARDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT INFORMS POLICY MAKERS, AND HOUSING ORGANIZATION'S WORK. OUR RENTAL TRENDS DASHBOARD IS ONE OF OUR FIRST DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS THAT EASILY SHARES AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING DATA FOR OUR WEBSITE USERS. HOUSINGLINK ALSO PROVIDES OUR STREAMS DATABASE OF PUBLICLY FUNDED RENTAL UNITS ACROSS MINNESOTA. THIS IS USED BY PLANNERS AND POLICYMAKERS TO KEEP THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF UNITS WITH AFFORDABLE COMMITMENTS IN THEIR OVERALL REGION CURRENT.

  Expenses $211,469 · Revenue $103,800

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

1 June 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.1

Source object

202621689349301427

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