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Homeful Foundation

Homeful charitable funds are distributed to qualified 501(c)(3) public charities working to eradicate homelessness.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.1MPhilanthropy$380kYouth Development$125kHuman Services$105kFood & Nutrition$30kEmployment$30k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,542, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,042 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,500 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POVERELLO HOUSE$25,000
THE WILLOW BRANCH$7,542
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 (FY18–22, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FUNDERS TOGETHER: $10k → 16%HomeAid Sacramento: $50k → 6%HomeAid Northern California: $20k → 9%Catholic Charities SD: $10k → 11%ST JOHN'S: $25k → 12%Society of St Vincent de Pau: $9k → 14%HomeAid Northern California: $7k → 9%HomeAid Inland Empire: $90k → 11%Hope of the Valley Rescue: $15k → 14%WISEPlace: $15k → 10%HomeAid Inland Empire: $50k → 11%WomenShelter of Long Beach: $10k → 14%HomeAid San Diego: $15k → 11%HomeAid Sacramento: $20k → 6%HomeAid San Diego: $15k → 11%Gods Fan Club: $30k → 11%Crisis House: $10k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20k → 10%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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
24

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationPublic BenefitCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • HA
    HOMEAID AMERICA INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $317k · revenue +54%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $87k · revenue +15%
  • PH
    Poverello House
    4× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +572%

Funded once

  • SB
    SAN BERNARDINO
    one grant, 2020 · $432k
  • CO
    COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ
    one grant, 2020 · $226k
  • CO
    CITY OF SALINAS-SPRUNG SHELTER SERVICES PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $94k
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
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
2
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
3
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
4
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
5
Shelter Inc

The mission of shelter, inc. is to prevent and end homelessness for low-income, homeless, and disadvantaged families and individuals by providing housing, services, support, and resources that lead to self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
6
Abode Services

Abode services offers housing programs linked to supportive services for homeless families, single adults and youth. housing options include permanent supportive housing rental subsidy assistance, rapid rehousing and emergency shelter.…

Housing & Shelter
7
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
8
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation

San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…

Unclassified
9
Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County

The mission of homeless intervention services of orange county is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.

—
10
Temporary Shelter Inc

The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.

Housing & Shelter
11
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.

Human Services
12
Insight Housing Fka Berkeley Food and Housing Project

IH's programs are grounded in the core components of food, emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, and rapid re-housing/ homelessness prevention services. Core programming is enriched with wraparound supportive…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Rebuilding Together of Kern County. 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

33 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. 33 of the 37 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN BERNARDINO: $432,456 · OtherSAN BERNARDINOThessalonika Family Services Inc: $295,000 · OtherThessalonika Family Services IncCOUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ: $225,628 · OtherCOUNTY OF SANTA CRUZSHELTER PROVIDERS OF SACRAMENTO INC: $100,000 · OtherSHELTER PROVIDERS OF SACRAMENTO INCCITY OF SALINAS-SPRUNG SHELTER SERVICES PROGRAM: $94,012 · OtherCITY OF SALINAS-SPRUNG SHELTER SERVICES PROGRAMCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $86,952 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTYVISALIA RESCUE MISSION: $55,000 · Other+8 more: $124,242 · Other+8 moreSocial Impact Fund: $475,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact FundORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $125,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED W…HOMEAID AMERICA INC: $316,500 · Human ServicesHOMEAID AMERICA INCGODS FAN CLUB: $29,800 · Human ServicesGODS FAN CLUBSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20,000 · Human Services+7 more: $78,500 · Human Services+7 morePoverello House: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together of Kern County: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · EducationSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $6,500 · EducationORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Crime & LegalST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $20,000 · ReligionSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION: $7,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,413,290Philanthropy$600,000Human Services$469,800Housing & Shelter$155,000Education$56,500Crime & Legal$30,000Religion$20,000Public Benefit$7,000

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 budgetSocial Impact Fund: $475,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHOMEAID AMERICA INC: $316,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetThessalonika Family Services Inc: $295,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTER PROVIDERS OF SACRAMENTO INC: $100,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $86,952 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPoverello House: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVISALIA RESCUE MISSION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER: $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGODS FAN CLUB: $29,800 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER PROVIDERS OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHELTER PROVIDERS OF RIVERSIDE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISEPLACE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRISIS HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS ADVOCACY FRESNO: $6,700 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Lennar Charitable Hou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sisters of St Joseph …Orange County Communi…Weingart FoundationThe Albertsons Compan…Lennar FoundationSempra FoundationThe Gap FoundationCalifornia Foundation…Banc of California Ch…California Community …
Lennar Charitable Housing FoundationCA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lennar Charitable Housing Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Lennar Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Gap Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation

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 Homeful Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homeful Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Homeful Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Homeful Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 37 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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