· Public charity
Virginia Housing Alliance
Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the VIRGINIA HOUSING ALLIANCE (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing effective housing policy across the commonwealth.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $94,907 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $150,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,093 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEWARD | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $10,000 |
| MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PRGM | $10,000 |
| HOME AGAIN | $10,000 |
| DAILY PLANET HEALTH SERVICES | $8,500 |
| ACTS - RVA | $8,500 |
| WESLEY HOUSING DEV CORP | $5,814 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $5,814 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERS CORP | $5,620 |
| ARLINGTON PARTNERSHIP FOR AFFORDABL | $5,426 |
| HAMPTON ROADS E LODGING & PROV INC | $5,233 |
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 (FY20–20, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
In response to housing needs in our communities, we champion policies, developments, and programs for quality affordable housing in the Richmond region.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Housing initiative partnership, inc. (hip) develops innovative affordable housing, revitalizes neighborhoods and equips people to achieve their housing and financial goals. hip's vision is that every person lives in high-quality affordable…
Development of affordable housing
Housing help plus is a community development organization that specializes in affordable housing development and management with a secondary focus on urban agriculture projects that benefit the community.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
Cornerstones housing corporation (chc) operates as the affordable housing arm of cornerstones, inc. together, cornerstones and its subsidiary chc have served fairfax county low- to moderate-income residents for over 50 years. working in…
We provide housing for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling, and financial assistance.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward and the most unlike its peers is Daily Planet Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 Emergency Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Community Housing Partners Corporation ↗
- Who funds TRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS 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: United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Herndon Foundation · Sentara Health · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health 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 Virginia Housing Alliance 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.
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.