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· Public charity

Center for Community Self-Help

The Centers mission is to create and protect ownership for all, especially people of color, women, rural residents and low wealth families and communities.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$13MHuman Services$5.1MHousing & Shelter$2.8MCrime & Legal$660kPhilanthropy$125kHealth$64kPublic Benefit$50kSocial Science$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $3,300,528, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,442,353 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,141,825 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $474k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
$223,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SelfHelp Ventures Fund$1,221,584
SelfHelp Credit Union$819,672
SelfHelp Federal CU$360,522
Center for Responsible Lending$360,000
SelfHelp CommDevelopCorp$223,750
The Resurrection Project$90,000
Lawndale Christian Development Corp$90,000
Hope Center Foundation$70,000
Pee Wee Homes$40,000
Richmond Heritage FCU$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hope Center Foundation: $70k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 13 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$21M
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+61%

Still filing today

77%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterSocial ScienceEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SV
    Self-Help Ventures Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +262%
  • SC
    Self-Help Credit Union
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +122%
  • SC
    Self-Help Community Development Corp
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +221% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • Communities In Partnershipgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $102k · revenue +670% · 29% of their budget
  • TK
    THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +80%
  • BT
    By The People
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Near North Development Corporation

Inner-city housing and economic development focusing on low-income individuals.

Community Improvement
2
New Disabled South Rising Inc

New Disabled South Rising is the advocacy arm of New Disabled South focusing on poverty and care, criminalization and democracy.

Civil Rights
3
Inclusive Communities Project

Promote fair and affordable housing for low income families, free from the vestiges of segregation and discrimination.

Housing & Shelter
4
New Disabled South Inc

To improve the lives of disabled people and build strong disability justice and rights movements in the South through research & knowledge building, advocacy & policy change, non-partisan voter engagement, and coalition building.

Health
5
Center for Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution and violence prevention assistance to at-risk populations.

Health
6
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
7
Nc Budget & Tax Center

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we work to document and analyze fiscal and economic conditions in partnership with community leaders and north carolinians with lived experience of poverty to advance systemic solutions through…

Civil Rights
8
South East Chicago Commission

SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves

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9
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
10
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
11
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…

Community Improvement
12
Housing Collaborative

Housing Collaborative makes affordable housing easier to navigate by helping to secure rental housing for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness; and for those who have lost housing due to disaster or displacement. We make it easier…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Side Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Jessie Ball duPont Religious Charitable & Educational Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 22 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Self-Help Ventures Fund: $9,946,355 · Community ImprovementSelf-Help Ventures FundSelf-Help Community Development Corp: $2,212,273 · Community ImprovementSelf-Help Community Development Corp+3 more: $534,700 · Community ImprovementSelf-Help Federal CU: $5,139,521 · OtherSelf-Help Federal CUSelf-Help Credit Union: $2,323,832 · OtherSelf-Help Credit Union+6 more: $508,786 · Other+6 moreCenter for Responsible Lending: $660,000 · Crime & LegalThe Resurrection Project: $182,500 · Housing & ShelterPEE WEE HOMES: $83,731 · Housing & ShelterCASA: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationHope Center Foundation: $70,000 · Human ServicesInstitute for Southern Studies Inc: $25,000 · Social ScienceUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $20,688 · Social ScienceMarian Cheek Jackson Center: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$12,693,328Other$7,972,139Crime & Legal$660,000Housing & Shelter$281,231Education$100,000Human Services$70,000Social Science$45,688Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSelf-Help Ventures Fund: $9,946,355 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetSelf-Help Credit Union: $2,323,832 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSelf-Help Community Development Corp: $2,212,273 over 8y, 45% of budgetCenter for Responsible Lending: $660,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $182,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $182,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $102,200 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEE WEE HOMES: $83,731 over 3y, 30% of budgetHope Center Foundation: $70,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetInstitute for Southern Studies Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $20,688 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCASA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJessie Ball duPont Religious Charitable & Educational Fund: $12,015 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarian Cheek Jackson Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Triangle Community Fo…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Community Self-Help funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Community Self-Help. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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