impact
The year by the numbers: impact totals, individuals served around the world and financial statements
35 million+
Since 1976, Habitat has helped more than 35 million people build or improve the place they call home.
1
One mobile unit made housing construction and improvement services available to marginalized families in Kerala, India, during COVID-19. Habitat India and its partners hope to reach 300,000 people with technical assistance and vital information through this service.
22
Habitat partnered with families in twenty-two countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America to improve sanitation. This includes increasing access to safe bathrooms and upgrading neighborhood drainage to promote healthier living conditions.
2,431
Over two thousand households in Guatemala’s Sacatepéquez province partnered with Habitat volunteers to install a smokeless stove. Built from adobe blocks and featuring a pipe that takes harmful smoke out of the home, the stoves reduce eye irritation, help improve health and cut firewood use by up to 50%.
5.9 million+
In FY2020, Habitat helped more than 5.9 million people build or improve the place they call home.
506
506 policies were successfully changed or enacted thanks to our advocacy efforts at the state and local level in the U.S. These policies impact more than 407,789 people and access or allocate more than US$544 million for adequate housing.
$146,331,144
Habitat affiliates invested over US$146 million in neighborhood revitalization in 2019, bringing together residents and partners in communities around the U.S. to collaborate, maximize resources and foster thriving communities.
12.37 million
Over 12 million people have improved access to land for shelter as a result of policy and systems changes through our 4-year global Solid Ground advocacy campaign.
9 million+
More than nine million TV viewers in Kenya learned how to make incremental housing construction more efficient and of higher quality through episodes of the popular evening talk show, Wicked Edition. Thanks to this collaboration between Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter and Kenya’s NTV, organizations partnering with Habitat in market development work in Kenya were featured, with the program sharing how their work makes an impact and helps artisans develop skills.
9.9 million+
In FY2020, more than 9.9 million people gained the potential to improve their housing conditions through our training ( 257,144) and advocacy (9,714,199).
345
345 Habitat AmeriCorps members served 377,243 hours, raising US$324,815 cash and US$102,744 in-kind donations, and engaging 77,116 volunteers in the work of the 120 U.S. affiliates that hosted them.
1,025
Habitat ReStores operate in six countries, including 889 ReStores across the U.S. and an additional 136 stores in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland and Poland.
21,582
Over 21,000 people participated in Habitat disaster preparedness and risk reduction trainings, which help communities around the world grow more resilient to disasters and other shocks.
nearly 1 million
Nearly one million volunteers helped build, advocate and raise awareness about the global need for shelter in the past fiscal year.
Individuals served
FY2020 summary
Habitat for Humanity’s strategic plan looks at the number of individuals impacted by our work. The Habitat network reports our work as a mix of households and individuals. To present our figures as individuals, we multiply by five the number of households served by our international work, and we multiply by four (or by two for repairs) the number of households served by our work in the U.S. and Canada. The data presented in the following tables have been through this conversion.
United States & Canada
| Individuals | |
|---|---|
| New & rehab construction | 14,884 |
| Repairs | 14,552 |
| Total | 29,436 |
Latin America & the Caribbean
| Individuals | |
|---|---|
| New & rehab construction | 27,670 |
| Incremental construction | 22,690 |
| Repairs | 44,660 |
| Professional services | 22,750 |
| Market development | 1,842,090 |
| Civil society facilitation | 3,060 |
| Total | 1,962,920 |
Europe, Middle East & Africa
| Individuals | |
|---|---|
| New & rehab construction | 4,730 |
| Incremental construction | 89,370 |
| Repairs | 7,805 |
| Professional services | 12,665 |
| Market development | 1,885,280 |
| Civil society facilitation | 8,390 |
| Total | 2,008,240 |
Asia & the Pacific
| Individuals | |
|---|---|
| New & rehab construction | 16,570 |
| Incremental construction | 88,720 |
| Repairs | 11,515 |
| Professional services | 31,405 |
| Market development | 1,583,995 |
| Civil society facilitation | 218,610 |
| Total | 1,950,815 |
Definitions
- New and rehab construction
- New houses are 100% newly constructed and meet Habitat for Humanity quality standards and local building codes. Rehabs are restorations of houses that once met Habitat’s standards and local building codes but needed major, usually structural, work to bring them back to these standards and codes.
- Repairs
- Minor restoration, such as patching roofs or walls or replacing materials in houses that still meet Habitat’s quality standards and local building codes.
- Market development
- Individuals served with better housing through the private sector as a result of a Habitat program.
- Incremental construction
- An intervention that fully addresses one or more of the five Habitat for Humanity quality standards:
- Adequate size
- Durable construction
- Secure land tenure rights
- Access to adequate amounts of clean water
- Proper sanitation
- Professional services
- Preconstruction advice or design services provided directly by Habitat professionals to the household, for specific construction projects.
- Civil society facilitation
- Partnerships in which Habitat leads community-based and nongovernmental organizations in a program designed to expand adequate and affordable housing.
Financial statements
Habitat for Humanity International, FY2020
Habitat for Humanity’s generous and dedicated donors and partners continue to fuel and fund our work around the world.
Your contributions — coupled with strong stewardship measures across the organization — have created a strong foundation for continued success, even with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis and global uncertainty that still follow in its wake.
Habitat has been fortunate to have strong financial results for the few years leading up to these current circumstances, a fact that positions us well to weather economic changes. Ever mindful of those changes and challenges, we forge ahead with our strategic focus on initiatives that will position us even more strongly to have a real impact on the world’s affordable housing crisis — and to build alongside the families who so desperately need to build or improve places to call home. We remain committed stewards of the financial resources you entrust to us.
We continue to grow our programs in the areas of housing microfinance and other lending solutions, as we also explore additional new technologies that will help more families around the world build more sustainable and more affordable housing solutions. Our advocacy work intensifies and evolves, and we continue to work in disaster risk reduction and response, particularly in Puerto Rico where recovery and repair from the 2017 hurricane devastation is ongoing.
Thank you for making all of this possible — and so much more. With your partnership and financial support, we continue to work toward our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
— Michael E. Carscaddon
Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief Financial Officer, Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International’s auditors have expressed an unqualified opinion on our June 30, 2020, consolidated financial statements. Those financial statements include associated notes that are essential to understanding the information presented here. The full set of statements and notes is available for download.
All figures presented are in thousands of dollars.
Consolidated financial information
Source of funds
| Contributions | $199,627 |
| Donated product | $41,385 |
| Government grants | $13,802 |
| Other income | $32,972 |
| Total revenue | $287,786 |
Use of funds
| Program - U.S. affiliates | $115,095 |
| Program - international affiliates | $78,527 |
| Program - public awareness and advocacy | $19,288 |
| Fundraising | $54,047 |
| Management and general | $19,458 |
| Total expenses | $286,415 |
Consolidated statements of financial position
As of June 30Assets
| FY2020 | FY2019 | $ change | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | $130,474 | $54,380 | $76,094 | 140% |
| Investments at fair value | $112,275 | $178,951 | $(66,676) | -37% |
| Receivables | $141,471 | $172,042 | $(30,571) | -18% |
| Other assets | $31,011 | $27,508 | $3,503 | 13% |
| Total assets | $415,231 | $432,881 | $(17,650) | -4% |
Liabilities and net assets
| FY2020 | FY2019 | $ change | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liabilities | ||||
| Total liabilities | $170,761 | $189,400 | $(18,639) | -10% |
| Net assets | ||||
| Without donor restriction | $134,984 | $119,987 | $14,997 | 12% |
| With donor restriction | $109,486 | $123,494 | $(14,008) | -11% |
| Total net assets | $244,470 | $243,481 | $989 | 0% |
| Total assets | $415,231 | $432,881 | $(17,650) | -4% |
Consolidated statements of activities
Year ended June 30Revenues and gains
| FY2020 | FY2019 | $ change | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contributions | $199,627 | $197,354 | $(2,273) | 1% |
| Donated product | $41,385 | $42,191 | $(806) | -2% |
| Government grants | $13,802 | $15,753 | $(1,951) | -12% |
| Other income, net | $32,972 | $45,221 | $(12,249) | -27% |
| Total revenues and gains | $287,786 | $300,519 | $(12,733) | -4% |
Expenses
| FY2020 | FY2019 | $ change | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program services | ||||
| U.S. affiliates | $115,095 | $121,512 | $(6,417) | -5% |
| International affiliates | $78,527 | $85,843 | $(7,316) | -9% |
| Public awareness and education | $19,288 | $16,647 | $(2,641) | 16% |
| Total program services | $212,910 | $224,002 | $(11,092) | -5% |
| Supporting services | ||||
| Fundraising | $54,047 | $49,265 | $4,782 | 10% |
| Management and general | $19,458 | $14,986 | $4,472 | 30% |
| Total supporting services | $73,505 | $64,251 | $9,254 | -14% |
| Total expenses | $286,415 | $288,253 | $(1,838) | -1% |
| Losses on contributions receivable | $382 | $176 | $206 | 117% |
| Total expenses and losses on contributions receivable | $286,797 | $288,429 | $(1,632) | -1% |
| Change in net assets | $989 | $12,090 | $(11,101) | -92% |
Combined finances
FY2019
The audited financial statements of Habitat for Humanity International reflect only part of Habitat’s work around the world. As autonomous nonprofit organizations, Habitat for Humanity affiliates and national organizations keep their own records of revenues and expenditures. To better demonstrate the magnitude of the movement, Habitat for Humanity International annually compiles combined (unaudited) financial amounts for Habitat for Humanity in total.
For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2019, we estimated the total impact of the entire Habitat for Humanity mission was as follows:
Source of funds
| Contributions and grants | $808 million |
| Gifts-in-kind | $718 million |
| Sales of homes | $657 million |
| Other income | $126 million |
Use of funds
| Program | $1.6 billion |
| Fundraising | $154 million |
| Management and general | $184 million |
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