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Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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.

$8.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$523k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$15MHousing & Shelter$11MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$678kArts & Culture$510kEmployment$222kPublic Benefit$161kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 88 grants below total $7,797,038, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,431,054 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $634,016 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

  • Under $10k10 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $644k
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.0M
$50,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$159M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST AL INC (CANANEAL): $50k → 19%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT (CAP): $8k → 24%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT (CAP): $209k → 26%BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $50k → 30%CHRISTIAN APPALCHIAN PROJECT: $61k → 26%BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $12k → 30%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT (CAP): $45k → 26%HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER INC: $8k → 17%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT (CAP): $42k → 26%CHRISTIAN APPALCHIAN PROJECT: $15k → 26%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $8k → 26%SECOND HOPE MINISTRIES: $8k → 15%SECOND HOPE MINISTRIES: $6k → 15%WOMEN IN CIRCLE INC: $19k → 15%WOMEN IN CIRCLE INC: $17k → 15%WOMEN IN CIRCLE INC: $14k → 15%WOMEN IN CIRCLE INC: $6k → 15%WOMEN IN CIRCLE: $5k → 15%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
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 90 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
64

Total granted

$28M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • CU
    COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +116%
  • OC
    OWEESTA CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +130%
  • RC
    Rural Community Assistance Corporation
    6× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +380%

Funded once

  • AR
    ADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +47%
  • HI
    HOMES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $103k
  • LC
    LAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONAL MH-MR BOARD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +93%
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
Housing Hub

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Habitat for Humanity Pennyrile Region Inc

To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.

Housing & Shelter
3
Realtor Community Housing Foundation Inc

None

Housing & Shelter
4
Community Housing Improvement Program

To provide healthy, sustainable, affordable housing to qualified residents of the north valley.

—
5
Appalachia Habitat for Humanity Inc

To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest

Housing & Shelter
6
Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation - Parent

To provide decent and affordable housing to low and moderate income persons.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Housing Assistance Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Enterprises Corporation Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Open Door Counseling Center

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…

—
10
Housing Opportunities Inc

To assist low and moderate income families to secure and maintain ownership of housing.

Housing & Shelter
11
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeownership Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 196 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
53/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC: $3,072,289 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INCOWEESTA CORPORATION: $2,927,422 · Community ImprovementOWEESTA CORPORATIONRural Community Assistance Corporation: $2,921,284 · Community ImprovementRural Community Assistance CorporationHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $2,918,851 · Community ImprovementHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION+9 more: $470,465 · Community ImprovementOxford House Inc: $1,170,171 · OtherOxford House IncCOAP INC: $1,047,420 · OtherCOAP INCFRONTIER HOUSING INC: $649,922 · OtherFRONTIER HOUSING INCOXFORD HOUSE (KENTUCKY): $490,300 · OtherOXFORD HOUSE (KENTUCKY)+141 more: $5,639,202 · Other+141 moreCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $2,536,911 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPO…HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,314,444 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANC…PARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $817,599 · Housing & ShelterPARTNERSHIP HOUSING INCEastern Eight Community Development Corporation Inc: $765,068 · Housing & ShelterEastern Eight Community Dev…HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $718,226 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES…NEW FOUNDATIONS TRANSITIONAL LIVING: $498,891 · Housing & ShelterNEW FOUNDATIONS TRANSITIONA…+14 more: $1,038,689 · Housing & Shelter+14 moreSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $313,650 · HealthKENTUCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CARE INC: $298,910 · HealthBEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC: $116,142 · HealthADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $109,619 · HealthDIVINE STEPS INC: $107,870 · HealthLAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONAL MH-MR BOARD INC: $100,000 · Health+2 more: $36,350 · HealthCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $387,225 · Human ServicesBELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $61,875 · Human ServicesWomen In Circle Inc: $61,033 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $30,509 · Human ServicesClinch-Powell RC&D Council: $592,751 · EnvironmentTRANSITIONS INCORPORATED: $386,330 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$12,310,311Other$8,997,015Housing & Shelter$7,689,828Health$1,082,541Human Services$640,642Environment$592,751Crime & Legal$386,330

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC: $3,072,289 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetOWEESTA CORPORATION: $2,927,422 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetRural Community Assistance Corporation: $2,921,284 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $2,918,851 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $2,536,911 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,314,444 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetOxford House Inc: $1,170,171 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOAP INC: $1,047,420 over 8y, 16% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $817,599 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetEastern Eight Community Development Corporation Inc: $765,068 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $718,226 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetFRONTIER HOUSING INC: $649,922 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetClinch-Powell RC&D Council: $592,751 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetNEW FOUNDATIONS TRANSITIONAL LIVING: $498,891 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $387,225 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITIONS INCORPORATED: $386,330 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $313,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CARE INC: $298,910 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $214,515 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $211,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJAY AND MARSHA MILLARD FOUNDATION INC: $181,488 over 3y, 25% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $176,306 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $164,376 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EXISTENCE IN: $157,160 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetKENTUCKY HIGHLANDS INVESTMENT CORP: $146,577 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY ACTION & DEVELOPMENT: $135,940 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCREATIVE COMPASSION INC: $120,362 over 3y, 32% of budgetKENTUCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $116,571 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetBEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC: $116,142 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $109,619 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDIVINE STEPS INC: $107,870 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBEATTYVILLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $107,569 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetLAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONAL MH-MR BOARD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGenesis House Inc: $95,710 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF-HELP HOUSING INC: $83,005 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKCEOC COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $76,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $69,102 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $65,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetBELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $61,875 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWomen In Circle Inc: $61,033 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetKNOX HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $60,580 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED OF VIRGINIA: $55,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Housing Partners Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BIRMING: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Neighborhood Reinvest…Honorable Order of Ke…Foundation for Appala…Opportunity Finance N…Enterprise Community …The Community Foundat…Cralle Foundation IncBlue Grass Community …The Fb Heron Foundati…The Gheens Foundation…Housing Assistance Co…James Graham Brown Fo…
Neighborhood Reinvestment CorporationDC34.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report 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 196 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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