· Private foundation
Housing Affordability Trust
The mission of Housing Affordability Trust is to provide financial support to qualified charities (as defined by the Trust Agreement) and Governmental Authorities (as defined by the Trust Agreement) that promote and advance housing projects for persons who are members of low-income families and very low-income families (including elderly…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jefferson County Housing Authority | $834,223 |
| United Way of Central Alabama | $318,200 |
| Grace House Ministries | $251,204 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| The Lovelady Center | $239,965 |
| Girls Inc of Central Alabama | $177,387 |
| Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama | $177,339 |
| Bessemer Redevelopment Corp | $169,487 |
| Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission | $125,000 |
| East Lake Initiative | $118,334 |
| The Common Thread Community | $118,076 |
| Neighborhood Housing Services | $116,456 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $100,000 |
| The Link of Cullman County | $100,000 |
| Housing Hope Partners Inc | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $866k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +41%- JHJCHA HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT CORP2× · 2017–2018 · $1.2M · revenue +64% · 36% of their budget
- TWTHE WELLHOUSE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- OPOne Place Metroone grant, 2020 · $500k
- WHWESTERN HORIZONS DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2022 · $282k · revenue -99% · 97% of their budget
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +85%
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.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
The mission of the organization is to enlist public and private bodies to support the goal of affordable housing for low and moderate income families and individuals through a non-profit housing development entity with a diverse board of…
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity mississippi capital area brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
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To support habitat for humanity affiliates by helping god's people in need of decent shelter. the association helps the helpers, recruits new sources of support to eliminate poverty housing in alabama and improves awareness of the needs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bessemer Redevelopment Corp and the most unlike its peers is The Flagstone Initiative Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 60 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds JCHA HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds TITUSVILLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD UP ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Will Bright Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN HORIZONS DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Care Development Network ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BIRMING ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMON THREAD COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MOVING UP COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE PARTNERS INC ↗
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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation
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 Housing Affordability Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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