· Public charity
Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc
Fahe makes a difference by providing opportunities to the appalachian region, which has historically been one of the most impoverished in the nation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $7,797,038 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,431,054 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $634,016 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $644k
- $50k–250k48 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN EIGHT CDC (E8) | $523,086 |
| OXFORD HOUSE (KENTUCKY) | $490,300 |
| COAP | $484,069 |
| CLINCH-POWELL RC&D | $420,201 |
| COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC | $409,818 |
| PARTNERSHIP HOUSING | $403,326 |
| FRONTIER HOUSING INC (FHI) | $355,014 |
| FIRST NATIONS OWEESTA CORPORATION | $298,247 |
| RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CORPORATION (RCAC) | $294,817 |
| HOPE ENTERPRISE CORP | $294,817 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT (CAP) | $209,305 |
| COMMUNITY DEV CORP OF BROWNSVILLE CDCB | $140,000 |
| HOMES INC | $140,000 |
| TRANSITIONS INC | $120,855 |
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT (ASP) | $97,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $582k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CUCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC6× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +116%
- OCOWEESTA CORPORATION6× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +130%
- RCRural Community Assistance Corporation6× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +380%
Funded once
- ARADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +47%
- HIHOMES INCone grant, 2020 · $103k
- LCLAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONAL MH-MR BOARD INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +93%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.
To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest
None
To provide healthy, sustainable, affordable housing to qualified residents of the north valley.
Open Door Counseling Center is a HUD Certified Comprehensive Housing Counseling Agency to educate and assist underserved households to obtain and retain affordable permanent housing; provide immediate basic human needs for community…
The housing assistance corporation is a public, non-profit organization committed to providing safe and affordable housing for persons of limited income living in henderson county and surrounding areas, because we believe every human being…
To provide services to organizations that are committed to provide economic opportunities and safe, decent, affordable and permanent supportive housing to low income persons with special needs.
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
Community based housing program designed to stabilize neighborhoods mainly through loans to home owners unable to obtain alternative financing and construction and rehabilitation of housing, related services include technical assistance,…
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
Building houses for low income families through grants and no interest loans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knox Housing Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jay and Marsha Millard Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds OWEESTA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Rural Community Assistance Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Oxford House Inc ↗
- Who funds COAP INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Eight Community Development Corporation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Clinch-Powell RC&D Council ↗
- Who funds NEW FOUNDATIONS TRANSITIONAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds JAY AND MARSHA MILLARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EXISTENCE IN ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HIGHLANDS INVESTMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY ACTION & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIVINE STEPS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · Opportunity Finance Network · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Fb Heron Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Housing Assistance Council · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee — 32% of income from government
- Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- Oxford House Inc — 8% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.