· Public charity
The Housing Fund
THE HOUSING FUND provides resources and creative leadership to help low and moderate income individuals and communities create and maintain affordable and healthy places to live.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $195,997 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $944,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $748,383 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
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $115,997 |
| FIFTY FORWARD | $25,000 |
| CONEXION AMERICAS | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| THE INFINITY FELLOWSHIP INC | $10,000 |
| LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE | $5,000 |
| NASHVILLE HEALTH | $5,000 |
| CUPID CHASE - COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC | $5,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY2× · 2022–2023 · $927k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE2× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +73%
- IFINFINITY FELLOWSHIP INCORPORATED2× · 2022–2024 · $35k
Funded once
- GAGIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -80%
- WHWESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +216%
- DIDISMAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +28%
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.
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
The village at glencliff's mission is to provide a healing community for medically vulnerable, unhoused nashvillians to safely recover, stabilize their lives, and imagine their futures.
New level community development corporation advocates for low-to-moderate income community by working with legislators, other non-profits, and private developers to create more affordable homes in nashville.
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
Chn's mission is to leverage the power of affordable housing to improve lives and communities.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
Housing Partnerships, Inc creates great communities through direct investments and partnerships.
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds GIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds DISMAS INC ↗
- Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds BE A HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Options Inc ↗
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: Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation
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 The Housing Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs — 3% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% 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.