Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Homeless Assistance Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $285k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Homeless Assistance Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $285k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $210k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $210k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women Against Abuse Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Self Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Step Staffing Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gender Justice Fund | $60,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Mazzoni Center | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| ActionAids Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Youth House Committee Inc | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Juntos | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopephl | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women Against Abuse Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Self Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Step Staffing Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gender Justice Fund | $60,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Mazzoni Center | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| ActionAids Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Youth House Committee Inc | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Juntos | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopephl | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Drueding Center | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Women's Community Revitalization Project | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Federation of Neighborhood Centers | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pathways to Housing - Pa | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($185k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Homeless Assistance Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation
How this is measured
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About Homeless Assistance Fund Inc
- How much does Homeless Assistance Fund Inc give?
- Homeless Assistance Fund Inc reported 9 grants totaling $285,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Homeless Assistance Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Housing & Shelter (35%), Health (11%).
- Who are Homeless Assistance Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Women Against Abuse Inc ($135k), Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia ($110k), Self Inc ($60k).
- Does Homeless Assistance Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Homeless Assistance Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Homeless Assistance Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, W W Smith Charitable Trust.
- Where is Homeless Assistance Fund Inc based?
- Homeless Assistance Fund Inc is based in PA.
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