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Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, COVENANT HOUSE builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking.

$36M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$9.8M
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 2025.

Human Services$174MHousing & Shelter$78MYouth Development$11MInternational$367kCrime & Legal$250kCivil Rights$77kHealth$25k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $32,014,596, the rows itemized in this filing. The $36,430,248 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,415,652 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $250k+14 grants · $32M
$1,462,594
Median grant
13
States reached
$162M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK$9,821,954
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY$4,499,948
COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA$2,504,426
COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA$2,205,367
COVENANT HOUSE PENNSYLVANIA$2,056,155
COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON$1,648,631
COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS$1,613,467
COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS$1,462,594
COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI$1,435,014
COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA$1,413,443
COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS$1,307,122
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN$901,663
COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA$861,724
CH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 HOLDINGS INC$250,000
COVENANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$33,088
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, $231.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $3.4M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $2.2M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $2.4M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $3.1M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $2.3M → 10%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.6M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1.9M → 23%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $3.4M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $2.1M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $2.1M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.5M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.6M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1.9M → 23%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2.7M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $2.0M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $2.0M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.5M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.5M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1.8M → 23%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2.7M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $2.0M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $1.9M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.4M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.5M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1.8M → 23%COVENANT HOUSE California: $2.7M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $1.8M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $1.8M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.4M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.2M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2.5M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $1.8M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.2M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.1M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2.4M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.0M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.1M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2.0M → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $2.0M → 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $4.1M → 16%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $11.2M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $10.2M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $10.1M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $10.1M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $9.8M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $9.8M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $8.2M → 17%UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK: $7.9M → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $4.4M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$3.1M · 70% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.3M · 30% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$263M · 15 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -42% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 14 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

15
1

Total granted

$263M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-42%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • U2
    UNDER 21
    9× · 2017–2025 · $77M · revenue +68% · 45% of their budget
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35M · revenue +37% · 37% of their budget
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +197% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -42%
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
Covenant House California

Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.

Human Services
2
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
3
Under 21

Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…

Human Services
4
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
5
Covenant House New Jersey Inc

To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…

Human Services
6
Covenant House Alaska

Covenant house alaska is part of covenant house, inc. the largest privately funded agency in the americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth.

Human Services
7
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
8
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…

Health
9
Youth Emergency Services Inc

Youth emergency services (yes) provides housing and support to youth experiencing instability, crisis, and homelessness.

Human Services
10
House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services
11
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
12
Covenant House Illinois Inc

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Missouri; the most unlike its peers is Us Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc. 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.

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

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNDER 21: $77,370,727 · Human ServicesUNDER 21COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $34,636,242 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INCCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $21,735,903 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIACOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $19,107,865 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INCCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $15,125,596 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DCCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15,031,508 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $13,927,714 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANSCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $10,710,496 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $8,171,087 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $8,096,822 · Human Services+1 more: $7,658,678 · Human ServicesCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21: $20,268,246 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $366,901 · Housing & ShelterCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $10,888,534 · Other+1 more: $76,653 · OtherCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 HOLDINGS INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $25,329 · Health
Human Services$231,572,638Housing & Shelter$20,635,147Other$10,965,187Crime & Legal$250,000Health$25,329

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 budgetUNDER 21: $77,370,727 over 9y, 45% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $34,636,242 over 9y, 37% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $21,735,903 over 9y, 26% of budgetCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21: $20,268,246 over 9y, 54% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $19,107,865 over 9y, 36% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $15,125,596 over 9y, 40% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15,031,508 over 9y, 35% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $13,927,714 over 9y, 32% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $10,888,534 over 9y, 35% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $10,710,496 over 8y, 73% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $8,171,087 over 9y, 16% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $8,096,822 over 9y, 35% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $7,658,678 over 9y, 22% of budgetCOVENANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $366,901 over 3y, 100% of budgetCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 HOLDINGS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $76,653 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $25,329 over 1y, 0.1% 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 UNDER 21 ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 HOLDINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗

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.

Bright Funds Foundati…Zumiez FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Bright Funds FoundationCA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Zumiez Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Covenant House funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Covenant House. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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, FY20–25
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 17 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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