· Public charity
Hope for the Homeless Foundation
To identify and financially partner with organizations in the portland area that are successfully helping men, women, and children gain stability in their lives so they are no longer homeless.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $50,000 |
| CITY TEAM PORTLAND | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF OR-KENTON WOM | $25,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSIONMEN'S LIFECHAN | $25,000 |
| ROAD TO HOPE | $25,000 |
| PTLD RESCUE MISSION-SHEPHERD'S DOOR | $25,000 |
| MY FATHER'S HOUSECOMMUNITY SHELTER | $25,000 |
| AGAPE VILLAGE | $25,000 |
| OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| TRANSITION YOUTH DBA BRAKING CYCLES | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBraking Cycles4× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +34%
- RTROAD TO HOPE ROAD 2 HOPE MATERNITY HOMES4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +28%
- AVAGAPE VILLAGE2× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +632% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- PHPATH HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +100%
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +1%- DGDO GOOD MULTNOMAHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +545%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
To provide families and individuals experiencing homelessness temporary emergency shelter with intensive case management support while they work toward the goal of safe, stable and affordable housing.
Providing shelter, housing, food, and case management services to men experiencing homelessness on the east side of king county, wa.
The way home - mt creates a gateway for sustainable housing, old fashionaed hospitality, and a healthy lifestyle through faith based ministry to build a strong foundation for individuals, familes, and the community.
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Transition projects helps people move from homelessness to housing through a variety of programs that include shelter, supportive housing, outreach, and a day center.
Provide support services for the community relating to mental health, substance abuse, youth services & violence prevention.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Home and the most unlike its peers is Braking Cycles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Braking Cycles ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO HOPE ROAD 2 HOPE MATERNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AGAPE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds PATH HOME ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds DO GOOD MULTNOMAH ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Bradley Angle ↗
- Who funds ALLONE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLES CLUB ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Hoover Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organization Hope for the Homeless Foundation 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.
- The Miracles Club — 70% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Do Good Multnomah — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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