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Homeless Assistance Fund Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$345kHousing & Shelter$335kHealth$110kCivil Rights$105kYouth Development$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER$50,000
JUNTOS$45,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE$45,000
FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS$30,000
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE$25,000
WOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PR$25,000
FIRST STEP STAFFING$25,000
PATHWAYS TO HOUSING PA$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $45k → 11%DRUEDING CENTER: $35k → 22%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $30k → 22%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $30k → 22%JUNTOS: $45k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $35k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $30k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $30k → 22%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$600k · 8 repeat orgs$360k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$600k
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WA
    WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $135k · revenue +9%
  • NS
    NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue -76%
  • SI
    SELF INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • VY
    VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AI
    ActionAids Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • H
    HOPEPHLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +59%
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
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
2
Urban Affairs Coalition

Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…

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3
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
4
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
5
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
6
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
7
Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.

Human Services
8
Places of Change

Resource for housing and other essential needs

Housing & Shelter
9
Moving Forward Network

Our mission is to provide free philadelphia transitional housing and support services to homeless populations to facilitate their movement to long-term housing.

Housing & Shelter
10
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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11
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
12
Covenant House New Jersey Inc

To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopephl; the most unlike its peers is Gender Justice Fund. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INCNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $110,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIAGender Justice Fund: $60,000 · Human ServicesGender Justice FundVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INCJUNTOS: $45,000 · Human ServicesJUNTOSHOPEPHL: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOPEPHLDRUEDING CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesDRUEDING CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAZZONI CENTER: $60,000 · OtherMAZZONI CENTERWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PR: $55,000 · OtherWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZA…VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $50,000 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSELF INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterSELF INCWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROJECT: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S COMM…PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterPATHWAYS TO …First Step Staffing Inc: $60,000 · EmploymentActionAids Inc: $50,000 · HealthFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $30,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$465,000Other$245,000Housing & Shelter$110,000Employment$60,000Health$50,000Youth Development$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $110,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSELF INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFirst Step Staffing Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGender Justice Fund: $60,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetActionAids Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEPHL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDRUEDING CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…W W Smith Charitable …United Way of Greater…The Patricia Kind Fam…Union Benevolent Asso…The Leo and Peggy Pie…The Gordon Charter Fo…Philadelphia City Fun…The Barra Foundation …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Homeless Assistance Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homeless Assistance Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

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    How do I get to Homeless Assistance Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Homeless Assistance Fund Inc 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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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