How much did THE HOUSING FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of THE HOUSING FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

tornado relief

2021

tornado repairs

2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$50k–250k1 grant · $116k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$49M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
MEN OF VALOR$5,000
LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE$5,000
CUPID CHASE - COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC$5,000
NASHVILLE HEALTH$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$979k · 3 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$979k

$100k

Still filing today

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
2× · 2022–2023 · $927k
TI
THE INFINITY FELLOWSHIP INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $35k
1A
15TH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH
2× · 2020–2021 · $17k

Funded once

GA
GIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +1603%
WH
WESTMINISTER HOME CONNECTIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +197%
DH
DISMAS HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +178%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Christ Led Communities Inc

To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.

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Council On Aging of Greater Nashville

To provide information to the general public regarding resources available to the aging.

Human Services

Convergence Memphis Inc

Working together to facilitate new solutions that bring racial equity to homeownership.

Housing & Shelter

New Level Community Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement

Community Housing Partnership

Providing affordable housing to underserved communities locally and around the world.

Housing & Shelter

Chn Housing Partners

Chn's mission is to leverage the power of affordable housing to improve lives and communities.

Housing & Shelter

Habitat for Humanity Williamson

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.

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Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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Habitat for Humanity of Tn Inc

To be a statewide resource development and support organization, advocating for, and advancing the work of tennessee's 38 habitat for humanity affiliates that serve over 60 counties by building strength, stability and self-reliance in…

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The Coalition for Better Health

Improve health conditions, battle chronic, and behavior-related diseases in tennessee.

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Nashville Cares

Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.

Health

Chn Housing Capital

Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.

Human Services

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.

05the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

10/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,132,803Human Services$45,000Community Improvement$35,000Civil Rights$25,155Employment$11,850Youth Development$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of MiddleTN22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 organisation 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.

2025

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WESTMINISTER HOME CONNECTION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461795939 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WESTMINISTER HOME CONNECTION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Housing Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Housing Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HOUSING FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Housing Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE HOUSING FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Housing Fund?

More from the funding graph