How do I find funders for a grassroots housing nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on grassroots housing organizations, currently Housing Telecommunications Inc, Orinda Senior Village Inc, Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

What counts as a grassroots organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to grassroots housing organizations?

$523M reached 3,038 grassroots housing organizations from 5,303 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Causes · Housing · grassroots

Who funds grassroots housing organizations

The funders that back grassroots housing organizations are specialists, not generalists: Housing Telecommunications Inc gives them 285.8× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. These are the small organizations the big-institution funders usually miss, so the funders that show up here are the ones worth a small housing nonprofit's time.

$523M

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3,038

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5,303

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The short version

5,303 funders gave $523M to 3,038 grassroots housing organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Housing Telecommunications Inc, giving 285.8× the national rate to grassroots housing organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc, at $15M.
The grassroots housing organization drawing the most is Invest Atlanta Partnership Inc, at $14M.

Funders most focused on grassroots housing organizations

Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.

Housing Telecommunications Inc285.8×$3M · 100% of its giving Orinda Senior Village Inc274.7×$3M · 100% of its giving Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc229×$2M · 86% of its giving Washington Alliance for Quality Recovery Residences225.9×$3M · 66% of its giving Asian Americans for Equality Inc209.3×$2M · 84% of its giving Inclusive Communities Project201.8×$2M · 100% of its giving Big Bend Homeless Coalition Inc189.9×$1M · 100% of its giving Amsterdam Nursing Home172.2×$1M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to grassroots housing organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$15M 2Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$8M 3Enterprise Community Partners Inc$5M 4Eugene V and Clare E Thaw$5M 5Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc$4M 6Habitat for Humanity International Inc$4M 7Possibility Labs$4M 8Charles and Phyllis M Frias Charitable$4M

Grassroots housing organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

3,028 other grassroots housing organizations$479M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a grassroots housing nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on grassroots housing organizations, currently Housing Telecommunications Inc, Orinda Senior Village Inc, Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
What counts as a grassroots organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to grassroots housing organizations?: $523M reached 3,038 grassroots housing organizations from 5,303 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Size is median total revenue; cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.