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Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Together with residents and partners, the organization forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunities across america - great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.
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.
The 1,119 grants below total $102,757,127 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,086,644 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,329,517 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 $10k49 grants · $351k
- $10k–50k599 grants · $14M
- $50k–250k374 grants · $39M
- $250k+97 grants · $49M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $4,721,400 |
| ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,918,487 |
| HEART OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC | $1,916,548 |
| LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC | $1,892,500 |
| CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY | $1,890,983 |
| ONYX ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES | $1,450,000 |
| MILES COLLEGE | $1,085,286 |
| SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,039,983 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC | $1,002,000 |
| SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KY | $950,500 |
| FLANNER HOUSE OF INDIANAPOLIS | $757,251 |
| CULTURINGUA | $722,250 |
| HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF VIRGINIA INC | $700,000 |
| THREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INC | $651,402 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA | $630,000 |
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, $59.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
1096 repeat relationships — 506 still active in FY2024, 590 since wound down; 146 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37M 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
- HHHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +6% · 48% of their budget
- FWFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +6% · 69% of their budget
- IAINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY7× · 2017–2023 · $5.3M · revenue ×12 · 92% of their budget
Funded once
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITYone grant, 2022 · $3.5M · revenue +3% · 28% of their budget
- TOTown of Southampton Housing Authorityone grant, 2017 · $2.5M
- FBFordham Bedford Housing Corporationone grant, 2017 · $1.9M · revenue -52%
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.
Providing affordable housing to underserved communities locally and around the world.
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and communities.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Through local knowledge, expertise and partnerships, develop and deliver resources to create opportunity for present and future neighborhood residents through quality, affordable housing activities.
Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, eguitable, and sustainable communities.
Promote fair and affordable housing for low income families, free from the vestiges of segregation and discrimination.
Pcdc provides bilingual, culturally sensitive assistance and services to clients in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood
The Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…
Build stronger neighborhoods through homeownership and other quality housing opportunities.
To engage in economic development affordable housing and community development activities for under-served communities
Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works and the most unlike its peers is American indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
1447 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. 1447 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Green Options Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Houston ↗
- Who funds FAIR HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Changing Lives ↗
- Who funds TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC ↗
- Who funds JOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Serv ↗
- Who funds CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Flanner House of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Albany State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds Asociacion De Puertorriquenos en Marcha Inc ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders · Southwest Human Development Incorporated · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · National Equity Fund Inc · Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership Inc · Citi Foundation · The Housing Partnership Network Inc · Credit Builders Alliance Inc · Community Development Advocates of Detroit · Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence · Opportunity Finance Network · Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development
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 Local Initiatives Support Corporation 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Sheldon Oak Central Inc — 23% of income from government
- Mutual Housing Association of Greater Hartford Inc — 22% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- Community Clinic Inc — 16% of income from government
- Operation New Hope Inc — 13% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc — 3% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 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.