· Public charity
Grounded Solutions Network
The organization's mission is to cultivate communities - equitable, inclusive, and rich in opportunity - by advancing affordable housing solutions that last for generations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of GROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $164,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $207,666 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,666 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC | $55,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $38,000 |
| HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $35,000 |
| BIG NFP | $18,000 |
| HERE TO STAY CLT INC | $18,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of your 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 +178% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MMULTIPLE4× · 2017–2020 · $298k
- ALATLANTA LAND TRUST INC5× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +220%
- HCHOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST5× · 2019–2024 · $252k · revenue -66%
Funded once
- VOVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2020 · $568k
- HHOMES4FAMILIESone grant, 2018 · $250k
- UHURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +125%
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.
To provide opportunities for low and moderate income people to secure decent affordable housing and to assure quantity, quality and affordability of housing for future low and moderate income individuals.
Combating community deterioration and expanding housing and economic opportunities for low and moderate income residents; promoting neighborhood stability and community involvement through permanently affordable homeownership and equity…
Development of affordable housing
Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…
Homestead clt develops land and housing in trust that gives lower-income households the opportunity to own a home that is affordable to them and remains affordable to future owners.
The Uniondale Community Land Trust, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose mission includes community renewal, revitalization, integration, and empowerment. Utilizing cooperative models of leadership and ownership, the Uniondale CLT,…
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…
The mission is to provide and preserve quality sustainable and affordable housing for underserved populations in South Florida.
NCLT is dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing for people with low to moderate incomes.
To provide safe, affordable housing for the people who are most vulnerable in our society - low-income and single parent families, the mentally and physically disabled, the homeless, and people with hiv and aids
Support and develop low-income affordable cooperative housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Land Trust of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Nfp Dba Blacks in Green. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LAND TRUST OF PALM BEACH COUNTY AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Proud Ground ↗
- Who funds CLT Interboro CLT Housing Development Fund Corporation ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds BIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green ↗
- Who funds Here to Stay CLT Inc ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Association of CDCs ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES FOR RESIDENTS & COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds PRG INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
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: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · The Chicago Community Trust · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Grounded Solutions Network 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Proud Ground — 11% 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.