Texas · Public charity
Housing Forward
HOUSING FORWARD leads in the development and implementation of an effective homeless response system to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in dallas and collin counties.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $7.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $228,261
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,417,344
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Housing Forward funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $7.0M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $6.3M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $4.1M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $113k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $63k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc | $3,379,842 | 3 | 3% |
| Under 1 Roof Dallas | $2,510,110 | 4 | 46% |
| Bridge Steps | $1,993,352 | 4 | 6% |
| Citysquare | $1,902,751 | 3 | 6% |
| Austin Street Center | $1,882,914 | 3 | 7% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $1,526,904 | 4 | n/a |
| Metro Relief | $1,011,694 | 3 | 32% |
| Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center | $774,607 | 2 | n/a |
| Family Gateway Inc | $658,727 | 6 | 2% |
| Harmony Community Development Corporation | $517,935 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc | $3,379,842 | 3 | 3% |
| Under 1 Roof Dallas | $2,510,110 | 4 | 46% |
| Bridge Steps | $1,993,352 | 4 | 6% |
| Citysquare | $1,902,751 | 3 | 6% |
| Austin Street Center | $1,882,914 | 3 | 7% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $1,526,904 | 4 | n/a |
| Metro Relief | $1,011,694 | 3 | 32% |
| Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center | $774,607 | 2 | n/a |
| Family Gateway Inc | $658,727 | 6 | 2% |
| Harmony Community Development Corporation | $517,935 | 3 | 6% |
| Shared Housing Center Inc | $471,733 | 3 | 22% |
| The Salvation Army North Texas Area Command | $292,591 | 3 | n/a |
| Hope Restored Missions | $215,493 | 2 | 25% |
| Maurice Barnett Geriatric Wellness Center Inc | $185,081 | 2 | 10% |
| Friendship West Baptist Church | $85,893 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $74,019 | 2 | n/a |
| The Family Place | $72,652 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan Inn Inc | $65,125 | 1 | 1% |
| Helen's Project | $37,303 | 1 | 10% |
| Transition Resource Action Center | $22,343 | 1 | 0% |
| Pwa Coalition of Dallas Inc | $17,527 | 1 | 0% |
| Elevate North Texas | $9,442 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Housing Forward supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Citysquare · Baron & Blue Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Dallas Mavericks Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation
How this is measured
About Housing Forward
- How much does Housing Forward give?
- Housing Forward reported 18 itemized grants totaling $6,960,749, out of $14,007,787 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Housing Forward fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (43%), Human Services (36%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Housing Forward's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc ($3.4M), Under 1 Roof Dallas ($2.5M), Bridge Steps ($2.0M).
- Does Housing Forward fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Housing Forward?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.
- Where is Housing Forward based?
- Housing Forward is based in TX.
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