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GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS
Gifts for the Homeless, Inc.
$805k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
abusefoundry umcneighborsacred heartstatementglorifygod
2020
childrenstrongershelter
2021
ministrystrongerpovertyworkschildrensupportiveend
2022
radcliffe roomgilliam roomoperatesbetterronda gilliamtransitionministry
2023
bcicooperativesworkershigh-touch incubationincubation leadershipleadership ecosystemcharlie's place
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $805,381.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$357k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Housing Counseling Services Inc
Provide housing counseling and training to low & moderate income buyers, homeowners & tenants.
Housing & Shelter
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Washington Voa Living Center
Low-income housing.
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Community Housing Partnership
Providing affordable housing to underserved communities locally and around the world.
Housing & Shelter
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Woodley House Inc
Provides supportive housing and services to dc residents with mental health disorders.
Health
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Housing Matters
Provide emergency and transitional services to homeless individuals in the county of santa cruz.
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Northern Virginia Affordable Housing
Increase supply of and equitable access to affordable housing in Northern Virginia through education, advocacy, and community partnership.
Housing & Shelter
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Cooperative Downtown Ministries Inc
Provide shelter, food, care, and comprehensive support to those experiencing homelessness.
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Magnificat Houses Inc
Magnificat Houses, Inc. offers a welcoming community where those needing housing, food and mental health programs can grow in stability, productivity and independence.
Health
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Friendship Place
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
Housing & Shelter
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National Low Income Housing Coalition
Achieve racially & socially equitable housing policies for the lowest-income people.
Housing & Shelter
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Partners for Affordable Housing
Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.
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Welcome House Inc
Welcome house provides a continuum of services that end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Coalition for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
11%
2,414/22,405
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.
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.
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC47.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Arlington Community Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · United Planning Organization · Corina Higginson Trust
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Gifts for the Homeless?
Find your warmest path to Gifts for the Homeless through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines