How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Florida?

Start with the funders already giving to housing in Florida, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Habitat for Humanity International Inc, The Chicago Community Trust. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Florida from out of state.

Who is the largest housing funder in Florida?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Florida, $53M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in Florida?

$1.2B reached 958 housing organizations in Florida, from 3,383 funders. 59% came from funders also based in Florida.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Florida · Housing

Who funds housing in Florida

Housing funding in Florida is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though The Lord's Place Inc leads, and the money reaches 958 groups.

$1.2B

granted

958

organizations

59%

from in-state

The short version

3,383 funders gave $1.2B to 958 housing organizations in Florida across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
59% of that came from funders also based in Florida; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of housing in Florida is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $53M.
The housing organization drawing the most is The Lord's Place Inc, at $56M.

Largest funders of housing in Florida

The funders giving the most to housing organizations in Florida, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$53M 2Habitat for Humanity International Inc$43M 3The Chicago Community Trust$40M 4Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$32M 5Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc$31M 6Childnet Inc$31M 7Homeless Service Network of Central Fl Florida Inc$26M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$21M 9Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative Inc$20M 10The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc$19M

Housing organizations in Florida that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

948 other housing organizations$832M

How to find housing funders in Florida

1
Start with the funders already active in Florida
The funders giving the most to housing in Florida are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Habitat for Humanity International Inc, The Chicago Community Trust. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
41% of housing money in Florida comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Florida.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Florida?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in Florida, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Habitat for Humanity International Inc, The Chicago Community Trust. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Florida from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Florida?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Florida, $53M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Florida?: $1.2B reached 958 housing organizations in Florida, from 3,383 funders. 59% came from funders also based in Florida.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.