Tennessee · 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. THE HOUSING FUND makes low interest housing, development and community development loans to individuals, families and developers to acquire, create and maintain…
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $50k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations The Housing Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $50k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $196k | 78% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $125k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $860k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $49k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $35k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $369k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity | $927,152 | 2 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville | $485,129 | 2 | 2% |
| African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Infinity Fellowship Incorporated | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gideons Army Grassroots Army for Children | $25,155 | 1 | 2% |
| Westminster Home Connection | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dismas Inc | $22,306 | 1 | 1% |
| The Sycamore Institute Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Conexion Americas | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity | $927,152 | 2 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville | $485,129 | 2 | 2% |
| African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Infinity Fellowship Incorporated | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gideons Army Grassroots Army for Children | $25,155 | 1 | 2% |
| Westminster Home Connection | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dismas Inc | $22,306 | 1 | 1% |
| The Sycamore Institute Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Conexion Americas | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Be a Helping Hand | $11,850 | 1 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Legal Aid Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Options Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Men of Valor | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Leadership Tennessee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nashvillehealth | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Housing Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Housing Fund
- How much does The Housing Fund give?
- The Housing Fund reported 3 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $1,983,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Housing Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (87%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are The Housing Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Habitat for Humanity ($927k), Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville ($485k), African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs ($35k).
- Does The Housing Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Housing Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joe C Davis Foundation, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Housing Fund based?
- The Housing Fund is based in TN.
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