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Homelessness Non-Profits Are Killing Los Angeles

Of $264 million in annual revenue, about $260 million comes from government grants, or about 98.5 percent of this one non-profit corporation’s total funding.

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Massive sums of money, washing into an endless system of creeks and gullies, diffusing and disappearing.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a county-city joint powers authority that has been largely abandoned by county officials over serious concerns about effectiveness, financial transparency, and basic operational competence, proudly says that it funds “more than 100 nonprofit partner agencies” in a single county.

To begin to understand what that giant system of non-profit corporations looks like in practice, look closely at a single example: Special Service for Groups (SSG). The Charity Navigator website describes SSG as an entity that performs a remarkably broad cluster of roles: “Provide behavioral health, support for older adults, social justice/anti hate, HIV/AIDS related, an extensive array of homeless, substance abuse and health access initiatives and services to vulnerable communities.”

Many divisions with different purposes live under SSG’s corporate umbrella. The Asian and Pacific Islander Forward Movement (APIFM) works within that local population on “community health and environmental justice issues,” for example, while Access to Prevention Advocacy Intervention & Treatment (APAIT) provides advocacy, education, and health services to “people at-risk for or living with HIV/AIDS.”

You can read about APAIT’s Trans Pride Gala here, as an example of their publicly funded work, and see a complete list of SSG’s divisions on the main SSG website (where they scroll across a banner near the top).

But SSG is becoming particularly important in homeless services, and is broadly funded as a homeless services agency. More about those details in a moment.

After its function, the next thing to understand about SSG is where the money comes from. In fiscal year 2025, which ended in June of that year, the organization had a little more than $264 million in revenue. You can find that number in their Form 990, the financial disclosure document a non-profit corporation has to file annually with the IRS. But if you open that document,........

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