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Community Housing Trust at a glance

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Community Housing Trust

The primary purpose of the COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST is to provide housing for homeless persons through (I) acquiring or facilitating the acquisition of residential property or (ii) leasing or facilitating the leasing of residential property.

$108k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

Housing & Shelter$533k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$33,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY OF HOPE INC$33,000
LYDIA'S HOUSE$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 (FY17–22, $170k) 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%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $50k → 14%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $10k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA INC: $10k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $5k → 14%LYDIA'S HOUSE: $50k → 14%LYDIA'S HOUSE: $25k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $10k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 6 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$458k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+67%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FP
    Friendship Place
    2× · 2017–2018 · $170k · revenue +104%
  • WA
    WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $110k · revenue +82%
  • LH
    LYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEAST
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -31%
  • SS
    Street Sense Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +67%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +114%
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
Central City Hospitality House

Hospitality House is a progressive, community-based organization located in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods, founded nearly 60 years ago in 1967 by community volunteers during the City's…

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2
Woodley House Inc

Woodley house enables district of columbia residents with mental health disorders to live full and healthy lives with dignity by providing supportive housing and services.

Health
3
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
House of Ruth

House of ruth helps women, children and families in greatest need and with very limited resources to build safe, stable lives and achieve their highest potential. serving the district of columbia since 1976, house of ruth provides…

Housing & Shelter
5
Everyone Home Dc

We support the holistic needs of individuals and families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Housing is our starting point. Seeing people thrive is our finish line.

Human Services
6
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
7
Lasa

LASA is a community supported agency committed to the prevention of both homelessness and recurrent homelessness.

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8
Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development

Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.

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9
SupportWorks Housing

We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

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10
Lydia Place

To disrupt the cycle of homelessness and nurture healing and belonging for current & future generations.

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11
Christ House

Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…

Housing & Shelter
12
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways to Housing Dc; the most unlike its peers is Lydia's House in Southeast. 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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

Friendship Place: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship PlaceWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INCLYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEAST: $75,000 · Human ServicesLYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEASTHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECTCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DCStreet Sense Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesStreet Sense IncLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CA…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $58,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY OF…CASA RUBY INC: $25,000 · Other
Housing & Shelter$280,000Human Services$170,000Community Improvement$58,000Other$25,000

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 budgetFriendship Place: $170,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetLYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEAST: $75,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCASA RUBY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStreet Sense Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Washington Co…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Community Housing Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Housing Trust. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Community Housing Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Community Housing Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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