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Grounded Solutions Network

The organization's mission is to cultivate communities - equitable, inclusive, and rich in opportunity - by advancing affordable housing solutions that last for generations.

$208k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$164k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Grounded Solutions Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$164k40%
FY20234$110k25%
FY202211$608k73%
FY20214$85k25%
FY20202$592k50%
FY20196$530k83%
FY20185$439k80%
FY20172$131kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.7MEducation$120kCommunity Improvement$110kScience & Tech$8kCivil Rights$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($867k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grounded Solutions Network supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAtlanta Land Trust Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetHouston Community Land Trust: $252,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUrban Homesteading Assistance (U-Hab) Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetChicago Community Land Trust: $183,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCity of Lakes Community Land Trust: $125,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCommunity Land Trust of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMission Economic Development Agency: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProud Ground: $80,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCLT Interboro CLT Housing Development Fund Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Portland Metro East: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Land Reform Inc Dba Center for Community Progress: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHere to Stay CLT Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPrg Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNeighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetResources for Residents & Communities: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Oregon Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRight to the City Alliance: $6,134 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Enterprise Community Partners IncMD20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · The Chicago Community Trust · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Grounded Solutions Network

How much does Grounded Solutions Network give?
Grounded Solutions Network reported 5 itemized grants totaling $164,000, out of $207,666 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Grounded Solutions Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (62%), Education (5%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are Grounded Solutions Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Atlanta Land Trust Inc ($270k), Houston Community Land Trust ($252k), Homes4families ($250k).
Does Grounded Solutions Network fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Grounded Solutions Network?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Community Partners Inc, Wells Fargo Foundation, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.
Where is Grounded Solutions Network based?
Grounded Solutions Network is based in CA.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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