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National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions Inc

The foundation is dedicated to preserving the nation's existing assisted rental housing stock and is committed to providing the underserved population with solutions and better access to decent, safe and well-managed affordable housing and community programs and services.

$283k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$35k
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.

Education$1.1MHealth$572kYouth Development$331kHuman Services$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$256kArts & Culture$154kRecreation & Sports$142kHousing & Shelter$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $217k
$6,160
Median grant
11
States reached
$275M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASEY CARES DONATION$35,000
WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION$32,000
LET'S WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY$25,000
WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY$25,000
BPS FOUNDATION$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$10,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILY INC$10,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$10,000
DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$10,000
CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$6,160
ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY$6,000
THE MECCA SOCIETY$5,000
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%MOST VALUABLE KIDS INC: $10k → 8%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%MOST VALUABLE KIDS INC: $5k → 8%CATHERINE'S FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 19%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $2k → 19%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $24k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $11k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $11k → 14%SCHOOL LEADER LAB: $9k → 14%SCHOOL LEADER LAB: $5k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $100k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $50k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $10k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $25k → 14%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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 12%.

National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 43 repeat orgs$669k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
41

Total granted

$2.3M
$578k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $586k · revenue +122%
  • CC
    CASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +84%
  • HI
    HOPE IN A SUITCASE
    3× · 2018–2023 · $160k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • JJ
    JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -62%
  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +54%
  • ES
    EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $39k · revenue +48%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
12
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mecca Society Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 97 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/85
Grantees still filing
52/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION: $152,000 · OtherWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATIONEMILY K CENTER: $105,000 · OtherEMILY K CENTERLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC: $75,000 · OtherLEARNING LAB VENTURES INCBPS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE HOUSING PRESERVATION: $50,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIES INC: $75,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIES INCEAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · Other+43 more: $450,570 · Other+43 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $586,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL…+2 more: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentUCLA FOUNDATION: $103,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…Mecca Society Incorporated: $55,000 · EducationMecca Society…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR…EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $39,000 · EducationEVANS SCHOLAR…DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDU…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY: $12,500 · Education+9 more: $54,381 · Education+9 moreELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthELIZABETH GLA…THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGEL…LETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthLETS WIN PANC…MONTGOMERY COUNTY COLLABORATION COUNCIL: $40,000 · HealthMONTGOMERY CO…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $25,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE …+4 more: $35,000 · Health+4 moreHOPE IN A SUITCASE: $160,000 · Human ServicesHOPE IN A …FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR …MOST VALUABLE KIDS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesSCHOOL LEADER LAB: $14,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $252,000 · Arts & CultureCASEY CAR…RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsJUSTIN J …MACCABI USA INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$991,570Youth Development$593,000Education$364,381Health$360,500Human Services$298,000Arts & Culture$266,000Recreation & Sports$260,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $586,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCASEY CARES FOUNDATION INC: $252,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHOPE IN A SUITCASE: $160,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION: $152,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $103,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIES INC: $75,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMecca Society Incorporated: $55,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE HOUSING PRESERVATION: $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COLLABORATION COUNCIL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET CONNECT INC: $26,160 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOST VALUABLE KIDS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL LEADER LAB: $14,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY: $12,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,381 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREDERICK B ABRAMSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATER DEI SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREE AND FAIR LITIGATION GROUP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $10,000 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.

Greater Washington Co…Alan and Amy Meltzer …The Abell Foundation …The Morris and Gwendo…Baltimore Community F…The Annette M Lerner …The Gary and Pennie A…T Rowe Price Program …The Jewish Federation…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…The Katie McGrath & J…Fund for Educational …
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC21.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc

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 National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • New Community Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions Inc 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 97 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 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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