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· Private foundation

The Homestead Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$542kArts & Culture$479kHousing & Shelter$378kCrime & Legal$335kHealth$268kCommunity Improvement$253kFood & Nutrition$243kHuman Services$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANDISFIELD ARTS & RESTORATION COMMITTEE$50,000
GRACE COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$50,000
WYLDE CENTER INC$25,000
PRAISE HOUSE PROJECT INC$25,000
POSSIBILITY LABS$25,000
FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER$25,000
FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC$15,000
SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC$12,500
HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $25k → 10%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $20k → 18%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $20k → 13%THE WELCOME PROJECT INC: $20k → 17%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $13k → 8%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $20k → 13%THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC: $25k → 14%MATERIAL AID AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM INC: $10k → 8%AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER: $20k → 13%THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC: $15k → 14%SISTERSONG INC: $30k → 13%SISTERSONG INC: $25k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $25k → 14%SISTERSONG INC: $25k → 13%CHARIS CIRCLE INC: $5k → 14%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN--: $20k → 14%LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH INC: $20k → 13%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $10k → 14%REIMAGINE ATL: $10k → 14%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $5k → 14%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 13%A VISION 4 HOPE INC: $10k → 13%CARING FOR OTHERS INC: $20k → 13%FOREVER FAMILY INC: $10k → 13%ATLANTA VICTIM ASSISTANCE INC: $25k → 13%CENTRAL OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $15k → 13%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

VT
MN
NY
MA
CA
KY
DE
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 57 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
74

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+10%

Still filing today

84%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TH
    TRANS HOUSING ATLANTA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $93k · revenue +23% · 25% of their budget
  • SI
    SISTERSONG INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $80k · revenue +163%
  • Community Movement Builders Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SOUTH FOR GULF
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • MF
    MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CA
    Canopy Atlanta
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -30%
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
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
2
Housing Justice League Inc

We work with renters and homeowners to self-organize and defend their right to remain. We fight to preserve affordable housing for just living conditions to prevent gentrification and to build community power for an Atlanta-wide housing…

Housing & Shelter
3
Center for Civic Innovation Inc

The Center for Civic Innovation uses local data and research to strengthen civic engagement and scale community-driven solutions in order to ensure that local public policy reflects the needs and the voices of people in Atlanta.

Environment
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
5
Trans Housing Coalition Inc

The corporation helps atlanta's chronically homeless transgender and gender non-conforming people move from the streets into long-term housing and on to the lives they want to lead.

Housing & Shelter
6
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
7
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
8
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
9
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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10
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
11
Just Bakery of Atlanta Inc

Just Bakery of Atlanta partners with our neighbors who resettled as refugees through paid job training, professional certification, and living wage work.

Employment
12
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Johnson Stem Activity Center Inc. 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

113 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. 113 of the 139 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
76/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FUND: $80,000 · OtherFeminist Womens Health Center Inc: $65,000 · OtherCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $75,000 · OtherEL REFUGIO MINISTRY INC: $90,000 · Other+72 more: $1,435,500 · Other+72 moreBOSTON CITY SINGERS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CITY SI…Sandisfield Arts & Restoration Committee Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSandisfield Ar…VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureVOX TEEN COMMU…ART PAPERS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureART PAPERS INCDominion Arts Foundation Inc: $36,500 · Arts & CultureDominion Arts …SOUL FOOD CYPHER INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSOUL FOOD CYPH…Create Your Dreams Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCreate Your Dr…MUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF DESI…WYLDE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWYLDE CENTER I…ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA MUSIC …FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreSISTERSONG INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INCAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesAUTOMOTIVE TRA…THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHARIS CIR…MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesMOVING IN THE …Atlanta Victim Assistance Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesAtlanta Victim…POSSIBILITY LABS: $25,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LA…EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCARING FOR OTHERS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE WELCOME PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $20,000 · Human Services+7 more: $77,500 · Human Services+7 moreSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $130,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNE…Southern Center for Human Rights: $50,000 · Civil RightsSouthern …GEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $45,000 · Civil RightsGEORGIA A…SPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $45,000 · Civil RightsSPARK REP…PROTECT THE VOTE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT T…+1 more: $9,235 · Civil RightsTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $65,000 · EducationVILLAGE MICRO FUND: $55,000 · EducationCOLLEGE AIM INC: $50,000 · EducationCanopy Atlanta: $35,000 · EducationSMART START PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRE: $15,000 · EducationATLANTA FAMILIES AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE I: $10,000 · Education21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC: $10,000 · EducationBlack Sustainability Inc: $10,000 · EducationRAR-MA INC: $10,000 · EducationTRANS HOUSING ATLANTA INC: $92,500 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $32,500 · Housing & ShelterClifton Sanctuary Ministries Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNicholas House Inc: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,745,500Arts & Culture$459,000Human Services$452,500Civil Rights$299,235Education$260,000Housing & Shelter$220,000Food & Nutrition$210,000

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 budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTRANS HOUSING ATLANTA INC: $92,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetEL REFUGIO MINISTRY INC: $90,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFeminist Womens Health Center Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTER CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetVILLAGE MICRO FUND: $55,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $55,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBOSTON CITY SINGERS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOLLEGE AIM INC: $50,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSandisfield Arts & Restoration Committee Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $45,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CHARIS CIRCLE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetVOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMEN STOPPING VIOLENCE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetGEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetART PAPERS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDominion Arts Foundation Inc: $36,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCanopy Atlanta: $35,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSOUL FOOD CYPHER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCreate Your Dreams Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Disabled South Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThree Seed Collective: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAtlanta Victim Assistance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

AEC TrustThe Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananGeorgia Power Foundat…The Waterfall Foundat…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Richard C Munroe …Luluma Charitable Tru…The Arthur M Blank Fa…
AEC TrustDE112.6× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AEC Trust · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · The Arthur M Blank Family 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 The Homestead Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Homestead Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boston City Singers Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Network for Social Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 The Homestead Foundation 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 139 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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