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Community Alliance for the Homeless

COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS unites partners and coordinates a comprehensive response system to end homelessness in memphis and shelby county.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$779k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$3.2MHousing & Shelter$2.4MHealth$1.2MPublic Benefit$638kPhilanthropy$262kEducation$217kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$129,941
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$779,493
SHELBY CO PREV & STABILITY$638,441
HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS$399,923
SCHOOLSEED FOUNDATION$129,941
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS$113,605
METHODIST LEBONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$112,259
METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION$89,785
PROMISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$54,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $779k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $476k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $126k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $66k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $60k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $53k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $48k → 17%THE HOSPITALITY HUB: $12k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $225k → 17%MIFA HOTLINE: $160k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATIO: $150k → 17%MIFA HOTLINE: $148k → 17%MIFA HOTLINE: $142k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $117k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $90k → 17%MIFA COORDINATED ENTRY: $80k → 17%MIFA COORDINATED ENTRY: $68k → 17%MIFA COORDINATED ENTRY: $40k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $400k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $358k → 17%METHODIST LEBONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $112k → 17%METHODIST LEBONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $90k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $57k → 17%METHODIST LEBONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $23k → 17%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 8 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$6.8M
$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $638k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +140%
  • PD
    PROMISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +35%
  • MI
    Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UM
    UT Medical Group Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $144k · revenue +43%
  • PT
    PASS THRU CITY MPHS MIFA HOTLNE
    one grant, 2019 · $81k
  • PT
    PASS THRU MIFA COORD ENTRY
    one grant, 2019 · $69k
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
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
One Family Memphis
Human Services
3
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
5
The Meadows Housing Corporation Inc

To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.

Housing & Shelter
6
Church Health Center of Memphis Inc

The mission is to reclaim the Church's biblical commitment to care for our bodies and spirits. Our ministries provide essential healthcare for the working uninsured and those who would otherwise be unable to afford it.

Health
7
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Methodist Health Inc

Methodist health provides quality healthcare services with a compassionate and caring spirit to persons, families and communities of the tri-state. at methodist health, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality…

Health
9
United Methodist Senior Services Foundation

The mrc foundation supports mrc and its affiliates in accomplishing their commitment to quality living for senior adults in faith-based environments.

Philanthropy
10
Community Alliance for the Homeless

Community alliance for the homeless unites partners and coordinates a comprehensive response system to end homelessness in memphis and shelby county.

Human Services
11
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
12
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach; the most unlike its peers is Alliance Healthcare Services. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $1,606,967 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INCMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $1,219,613 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith AssociationTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $827,142 · Human ServicesTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHISMethodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach: $224,679 · Human ServicesMethodist Le Bonheur Community OutreachALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $975,045 · OtherALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICE…SHELBY CO PREV & STABILITY: $638,441 · OtherSHELBY CO PREV & STABILITYPASS THRU CITY MPHS MIFA HOTLNE: $80,783 · OtherPASS THRU MIFA COORD ENTRY: $68,868 · OtherAGAPE CHILE & FAMILY SERVICES: $67,909 · Other+2 more: $114,983 · Other+2 morePROMISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,485,095 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE DEVELOPMENT C…SchoolSeed Foundation: $261,612 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS: $216,946 · EducationUT Medical Group Inc: $144,402 · Health
Human Services$3,878,401Other$1,946,029Housing & Shelter$1,485,095Philanthropy$261,612Education$216,946Health$144,402

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $1,606,967 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetPROMISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,485,095 over 9y, 10% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $1,219,613 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $975,045 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $827,142 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation: $261,612 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMethodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach: $224,679 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS: $216,946 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUT Medical Group Inc: $144,402 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOutreach Housing and Community Inc: $53,034 over 1y, 28% 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.

  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds SchoolSeed Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds UT Medical Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds Outreach Housing and Community Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of the Mid…Christian Community F…The Assisi Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Community Alliance for the Homeless funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Alliance for the Homeless. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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