· Public charity
Better Living Communities
Acquisition and development of resl estate and low income housing development
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $500
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCH COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $400 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2023.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2023, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 3 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Better Living Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Better Living Communities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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