How much did HOMEFREE USA INC grant in FY2024?

HOMEFREE USA INC reported 42 grants totaling $2,373,821 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is HOMEFREE USA INC based?

HOMEFREE USA INC is based in MD.

HOMEFREE USA INC

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· Public charity

HOMEFREE USA INC

Homefree USA is a non-profit public benefit organization that specializes in homeownership development, foreclosure intervention and financial empowerment.

$2.4M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$542k

Largest

01What you fund

0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$13MHousing & Shelter$9.4MCommunity Improvement$2.1MHealth$1.5MEducation$871kReligion$710kFood & Nutrition$413kPhilanthropy$182kOther$2.9M

02beneath 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

2020

housing counselingaffordable housingwealthsolutionsaccessapprovededucation counseling

2021

potential ownersproperty purchasedpurchased renovationrenovation salesale lowincome potential

2022

potential homeownersproperty purchasedpurchased renovationrenovation salesale lowincome potential

2023

potential homeownersproperty purchasedpurchased renovationrenovation salesale lowincome potential

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k26 grants · $640k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $542k

$30,015

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

Cambridge Company$542,000
HELP Community Development Corporation$133,507
H and Neighborhood Development Services$99,891
Safeguard Credit Counseling Service Inc$90,001
USA HOMEOWNERSHIP$90,000
Real Estate and Community Housing$87,000
Portland Housing Center$80,000
Services of Hope$77,999
Neighborhood Partners$77,027
Centre for Economic Development$75,000
Shalom Center for Tree of Life$70,000
Homeownership OC$62,764
Affordable Housing Centers of Philadelphia$60,253
Consumer Education Services Inc$58,000
Community Link$55,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $13.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 52% of HOMEFREE USA INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

HOMEFREE USA INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 83% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$31M · 46 repeat orgs$546k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$31M

$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+18%

Still filing today

93%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther

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

IE
Inland Empire
3× · 2021–2023 · $4.7M · revenue +113% · 93% of their budget
CC
Cambridge Credit Counseling
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +23%
SC
Shalom Center for Tree of Life
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +121% · 69% of their budget

Funded once

CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
one grant, 2022 · $248k · revenue +18%
CH
COMMUNITY HOME SOLUTIONS
one grant, 2020 · $38k
TD
The Develop Corp of West Baltimore
one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Neighborhood Housing Services 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,…

Housing & Shelter

Community Housing Capital Inc

Community housing capital primarily provides (see schedule o for continuation) multifamily and single family development, and interim acquistion & development lending for affordable housing preservation and development for the benefit of…

Housing & Shelter

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…

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Housing Education and Economic Development Inc

To keep the public aware of Fair Housing and Fair Lending laws and other housing issues, such as Foreclosures, Predatory Lending, and First Time buyers information.

Housing & Shelter

Neighborhood Housing Services of

We are a nonprofit community development organization that revitalizes and builds communities. we are a partnership of residents, the business community, government, and community leaders. we seek to build healthier and stronger…

Housing & Shelter

Capital Area Housing Partnership

Develops neighborhoods with a focus on affordable housing, homeownership, and financial security.

Housing & Shelter

Neighborhood Housing Services

Build stronger neighborhoods through homeownership and other quality housing opportunities.

Housing & Shelter

Housing Help Inc

Affordable housing services including counseling and development

Housing & Shelter

Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida

To develop sustainable housing, finance new homebuyers, educate current and prospective homebuyers

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Philadelphia Council for Community

Pcca's mission is to strengthen households and communities by developing and preserving homeownership and affordable housing, and educating consumers to increase accessability to economic opportunities.

—

Neighborhood Housing Services of

Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…

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Neighborhood Housing and Development Corporation

The Organizations mission is to improve quality of life and economic opportunities by providing services that will address identified community needs. The primary focus is to increase access to quality, affordable, sustainable housing for…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Housing Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Jackson Community Develop. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/56

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,922

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.

06the grantee network

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

35/49

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$13,442,000Housing & Shelter$9,383,443Other$3,529,545Community Improvement$2,123,993Health$1,524,347Education$871,445Religion$710,487

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.

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.

Td Charitable FoundationME15.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Local Initiatives Support Corporation

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 organisation HOMEFREE USA 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Inland Empire.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821090176 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Inland Empire, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Homefree USA Inc?

Find your warmest path to Homefree USA Inc 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.

HOMEFREE USA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Homefree USA Inc?

More from the funding graph

HOMEFREE USA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Homefree USA Inc?

More from the funding graph