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Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing at a glance

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Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing

Mcfah aims to improve the quality of life of primarily low and moderate income individuals and families by providing them with residences in safe, decent and affordable housing communities.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$157kYouth Development$89kHealth$86kHuman Services$71kEducation$37kEmployment$33kFood & Nutrition$18kAnimals$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTINDALE-BRIGHTWOOD CDC$11,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT CO$8,000
HAVEN HOUSE$7,500
CHATT FOUNDATION$6,000
LIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS ED FOUND$3,000
HOLY CROSS SERVICES$3,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES IEC$3,000
WELCOME HOME CHATTANOOGA$2,500
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT CO: $10k → 10%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $15k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT CO: $8k → 10%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $45k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT CO: $8k → 10%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $18k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
OR
IN
OH
TN
SC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$416k · 11 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$416k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+40%

Still filing today

73%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    ST MARY'S HOME
    4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +19%
  • WH
    WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +417%
  • HAVEN HOUSE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • AS
    A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +53%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CI
    Central Indiana Clubhouse NFP Corp
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -95%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion
2
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
3
The Haven At First and Market Inc

The haven provides a safe and welcoming space for the homeless and very poor in charlottesville, virginia area by supprting individuals and families as they pursue stability through connections to resources and creative housing…

Human Services
4
Samaritan House Inc

Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Triple C Housing Inc

To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independently with dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential.

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6
Serenity House of Clallam County

Reduce homelessness in clallam county by providing resources for people to prevent evictions, receive funds for rental assistance, and shelters for families and adults.

Housing & Shelter
7
Christian Care Communities Inc Group Return

Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…

Human Services
8
Iccf Community Homes

Equitable opportunity. affordable homes. thriving neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
9
Inner City Mission of Springfield

The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.

Religion
10
Developmental Disabilities Management Assistance Inc

Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.

Human Services
11
St Patrick Center

St. patrick center transforms lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

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12
Christian Church Homes

Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Safe Haven Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Martindale Brightwood Community Development Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATT FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherCHATT FOUNDATIONERSKINE GREEN TRAINING INSTITUTE: $33,000 · OtherERSKINE GREEN TRAINING INSTITUTESt Vincent Catholic Charities: $32,500 · OtherSt Vincent Catholic CharitiesHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $25,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS SERVICES INCLIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS ED FOUND: $24,000 · OtherLIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS ED FOUNDVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCEASTER SEALS CROSSROADS: $13,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS CROSSROADSEASTER SEALS CROSSROADS: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherST MARY'S HOME: $88,500 · Human ServicesST MARY'S HOMEFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $26,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOW…WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA: $75,500 · HealthWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOO…A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATIONCENTERSTONE OF INDIANA INC: $7,500 · HealthCENTERSTONE OF INDIANA IN…HAVEN HOUSE: $50,500 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN HOUSESLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $13,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENL…Martindale Brightwood Community Development Center: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterMartindale Brigh…Central Indiana Clubhouse NFP Corp: $10,000 · EducationCREA FOUNDATION INC: $3,030 · EducationRILEY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 · Community ImprovementEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$190,500Human Services$114,500Health$113,000Housing & Shelter$74,500Education$13,030Community Improvement$3,000Food & Nutrition$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARY'S HOME: $88,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA: $75,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $50,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSt Vincent Catholic Charities: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $26,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMartindale Brightwood Community Development Center: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Indiana Clubhouse NFP Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTERSTONE OF INDIANA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREA FOUNDATION INC: $3,030 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRILEY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Capital Region Commun…The Chicago Community…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Capital Region Community FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing?

    Find your warmest path to Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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