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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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING FORWARD VIRGINIA$17,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HOMEWARD: $10k → 7%ACTS - RVA: $9k → 9%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.
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 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.

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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…

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2
Housing Initiative Partnership Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Partnership for Housing Affordability

In response to housing needs in our communities, we champion policies, developments, and programs for quality affordable housing in the Richmond region.

Education
4
Virginia Community Development Corp

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 & Shelter
5
Central Virginia Housing Coalition

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.

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6
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

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

Housing & Shelter
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Housing Affordability Institute
Housing & Shelter
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Community Housing Council
Housing & Shelter
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Habitat Community Housing Development Inc

Development of affordable housing

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10
Cornerstones Housing Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Pacific Housing Association
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Cfh Inc

CFH empowers individuals and families to successfully create a sustainable home in which they can achieve their goals and allow their children to build their dreams and reach their potentials.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward; 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.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSING VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN INC: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN INCMICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INCEmergency Shelter Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterEmergency Shelter IncPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $5,814 · Housing & ShelterPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCESupportWorks Housing: $10,000 · OtherSupportWorks HousingDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $8,500 · OtherDAILY PLANET INCORPORATEDWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $5,814 · OtherWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION O…Community Housing Partners Corporation: $5,620 · OtherCommunity Housing Partners CorporationTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC: $5,426 · OtherTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INCHAMPTON ECUMENICAL LODGING AND PROVISIONS INC: $5,233 · OtherHAMPTON ECUMENICAL LODGING AND PROVISION…HOMEWARD: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWARDAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $8,500 · Human ServicesAREA CONGREGATIONS…HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHAMPTON RO…
Housing & Shelter$43,314Other$40,593Human Services$18,500Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSupportWorks Housing: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEmergency Shelter Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $8,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $5,814 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $5,814 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Housing Partners Corporation: $5,620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC: $5,426 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Pauley Family Fou…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Herndon FoundationSentara HealthThe Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Bon Secours - St Mary…Estes Foundation Co M…The William H - John …Robert G Cabell III a…Richmond Memorial Hea…
United Way of Greater Richmond & PetersburgVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Virginia Housing Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Housing Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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