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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 FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $164,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $207,666 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,666 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC$55,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$38,000
HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$35,000
BIG NFP$18,000
HERE TO STAY CLT INC$18,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $125k → 11%PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNI: $10k → 22%MULTIPLE: $121k → 8%MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $100k → 10%VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $568k → 14%RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $6k → 17%HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $125k → 16%COMMUNITY LAND TRUST OF PALM BEACH: $100k → 11%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $25k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND REGION: $50k → 12%CCMNT SPEAKERS - AMP - 1177 KEYNOTE: $8k → 15%ATLANTA LAND TRUST: $125k → 14%CHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $125k → 14%PRG INC: $10k → 11%HOMES4FAMILIES: $250k → 14%URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE BOARD: $200k → 17%HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $52k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OREGON: $8k → 12%ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $55k → 14%CHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $38k → 14%MULTIPLE: $78k → 14%INTERBORO CLT: $50k → 17%HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $35k → 16%PROUD GROUND: $50k → 12%ATLANTA LAND TRUST: $50k → 14%CHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $20k → 14%MULTIPLE: $75k → 14%HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $20k → 16%PROUD GROUND: $20k → 12%ATLANTA LAND TRUST: $20k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF: $10k → 14%MULTIPLE: $24k → 14%HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $20k → 16%PROUD GROUND: $10k → 12%ATLANTA LAND TRUST: $20k → 14%HERE TO STAY CLT INC: $18k → 14%AVENUE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 16%RESOURCES FOR RESIDENTS &: $10k → 14%BIG NFP: $18k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +178% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+178%
+39%

Still filing today

80%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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

  • M
    MULTIPLE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $298k
  • AL
    ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +220%
  • HC
    HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    5× · 2019–2024 · $252k · revenue -66%

Funded once

  • VO
    VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $568k
  • H
    HOMES4FAMILIES
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • UH
    URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +125%
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
Colorado Community Land Trust Denver Llc

To provide opportunities for low and moderate income people to secure decent affordable housing and to assure quantity, quality and affordability of housing for future low and moderate income individuals.

Philanthropy
2
Oakland Community Land Trust

Combating community deterioration and expanding housing and economic opportunities for low and moderate income residents; promoting neighborhood stability and community involvement through permanently affordable homeownership and equity…

Housing & Shelter
3
Habitat Community Housing Development Inc

Development of affordable housing

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4
Cape Fear Community Land Trust Inc

Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…

Housing & Shelter
5
Homestead Community Land Trust

Homestead clt develops land and housing in trust that gives lower-income households the opportunity to own a home that is affordable to them and remains affordable to future owners.

Housing & Shelter
6
Uniondale Community Land Trust Inc

The Uniondale Community Land Trust, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose mission includes community renewal, revitalization, integration, and empowerment. Utilizing cooperative models of leadership and ownership, the Uniondale CLT,…

Community Improvement
7
Bhp Community Land Trust Inc

The mission is to provide and preserve quality sustainable and affordable housing for underserved populations in South Florida.

Housing & Shelter
8
Fort Worth Community Land Trust

The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…

Housing & Shelter
9
Kansas City Community Land Trust

Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.

Housing & Shelter
10
Northern California Land Trust

NCLT is dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing for people with low to moderate incomes.

—
11
Door County Housing Partnership Inc

The Door County Housing Partnership is creating a stable supply of permanently affordable housing for year-round residents to maintain the character, vibrancy, and diversity of the Door County community. Door County has an affordable…

Housing & Shelter
12
Bay Area Community Land Trust

Support and develop low-income affordable cooperative housing.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Lakes Community Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Big Nfp Dba Blacks in Green. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC: $270,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA LAND TRUST INCHOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $252,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INCCHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $183,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTCITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterCITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST OF PALM BEACH COUNTY AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST OF PALM BEACH COUNTY AND THE TREASURE …Proud Ground: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterProud GroundCLT Interboro CLT Housing Development Fund Corporation: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $76,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 moreVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $568,282 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSMULTIPLE: $298,402 · OtherMULTIPLEHOMES4FAMILIES: $250,000 · OtherHOMES4FAMILIESMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $100,000 · OtherMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY+2 more: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $25,000 · EnvironmentPhiladelphia Association of CDCs: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $6,134 · Civil Rights
Housing & Shelter$1,386,000Other$1,231,684Environment$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Civil Rights$6,134

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …Wells Fargo FoundationNeighborhood Reinvest…The Chicago Community…Local Initiatives Sup…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…John D and Catherine …The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grounded Solutions Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grounded Solutions Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East: 14% of income from government
  • Proud Ground: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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 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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