· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $6,960,749 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,007,787 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,047,038 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $943k
- $250k+8 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS | $1,417,344 |
| UNDER 1 ROOF | $899,728 |
| AUSTIN STREET CENTER | $851,728 |
| THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY | $796,193 |
| CITY SQUARE | $688,587 |
| THE STEWPOT | $520,698 |
| METRO RELIEF INC | $404,590 |
| DALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH | $389,877 |
| HARMONY COMMUNIITY DEVELOPMEN | $228,261 |
| HOPE RESTORED MISSIONS LLC | $179,609 |
| FAMILY GATEWAY | $174,230 |
| SHARED HOUSING CENTER | $114,029 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS | $95,545 |
| FAITH FORMULE HUMAN SERVICES | $85,893 |
| SAMARITAN INN | $65,125 |
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 (FY21–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +12%
- BSBRIDGE STEPS4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
- ASAUSTIN STREET CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HPHELEN'S PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $37k
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.
Tarrant County Homeless Coalition leads the community solution to homelessness in greater Tarrant and Parker counties by serving as a catalyst for community transformation.
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
Front Steps is responsible for managing the Austin Resource for the Homeless located in downtown Austin, which serves as a central point of intake and assessment for homeless persons. Front Steps also assists its clients with recuperative…
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
To prevent homelessness and stabilize families at risk in decent, affordable, safe and permanent housing and to empower these families to solve their own housing problems in the future.
To improve the quality of life for residents in the South Dallas / Fair Park community by providing programs and services that help people break out of the cycle of poverty and empower them to become contributing members of their…
To operate a 30 unit permanent and temporary housing facility known as Destiny Village for rental to low income individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence and or sexual assault
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Steps and the most unlike its peers is Maurice Barnett Geriatric Wellness Center 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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE STEPS ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds METRO RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds Harmony Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds SHARED HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESTORED MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds Maurice Barnett Geriatric Wellness Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NORTH TEXAS ↗
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: 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
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 Forward 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.