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One Roof

It is the mission of ONE ROOF to equip and empower our community to prevent and end homelessness through advocacy, education, and coordination of services.

$356k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$111k
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, FY2021 to 2023.

Housing & Shelter$1.6M
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $328k
$54,441
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA$110,904
COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES (FIREHOUSE)$63,028
FIRST LIGHT INC$54,441
PATHWAYS INC$50,000
BRIDGE MINISTRIES$50,000
BIRMINGHAM URBAN LEAGUE$27,646
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA: $111k → 19%BRIDGE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%BRIDGE MINISTRIES: $40k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $155k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $136k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM (DBA YWCA OF CENTRAL ALA: $131k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $87k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $85k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $80k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $54k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $50k → 16%BIRMINGHAM URBAN LEAGUE: $28k → 16%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$1.4M
$41k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CD
    COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $315k · revenue +7%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM
    2× · 2021–2022 · $286k · revenue +1%
  • PI
    PATHWAYS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $266k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $41k
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
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
2
Bridges Outreach Inc

Bridges ends homelessness through volunteer-driven outreach and individual case management focusing on health, housing, and independence. bridges forms relationships with those experiencing homelessness while meeting their most urgent…

Human Services
3
United Community Ministries Inc

Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.

Human Services
4
Crossroads Urban Center

Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.

Human Services
5
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

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

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6
Community Action Board

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.

Employment
7
Bridge Communities Inc

The mission of bridge communities is to transition homeless families to self-sufficiency by working with partners to provide mentoring, housing, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
8
Welcome House Inc

Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.

Housing & Shelter
9
Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Inc

Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.

Human Services
10
Roots Young Adult Shelter

Roots partners with young adults on their journey to stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Waycross Area Shelter for Abused Persons Inc

Shelter and counseling for abused women and their children

Crime & Legal
12
Community Networks Inc

Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cooperative Downtown Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Youth Towers. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $285,944 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAMPATHWAYS INC: $266,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS INCFIRST LIGHT INC: $226,742 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INCCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA INC: $110,904 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA INCBRIDGE MINISTRIES INC: $90,218 · Human ServicesBRIDGE MINISTRIES INC+1 more: $27,646 · Human ServicesCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $315,028 · OtherCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINI…THE SALVATION ARMY: $41,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYDANNON PROJECT: $207,739 · Community ImprovementDANNON PROJECTYouth Towers: $28,333 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,007,454Other$356,028Community Improvement$207,739Housing & Shelter$28,333

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $315,028 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $285,944 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $266,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $226,742 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetDANNON PROJECT: $207,739 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA INC: $110,904 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGE MINISTRIES INC: $90,218 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetYouth Towers: $28,333 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetBirmingham Urban League Inc: $27,646 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Campbell Estelle S Ch…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Community Partnership…United Way of Central…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Protective Life Found…Enterprise Holdings F…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 One Roof funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from One Roof. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to One Roof?

    Find your warmest path to One Roof 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 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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