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

Start with the funders already giving to housing in Texas, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Greater Houston Community Foundation, 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 Texas from out of state.

Who is the largest housing funder in Texas?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Texas, $62M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in Texas?

$1.4B reached 1,028 housing organizations in Texas, from 3,065 funders. 67% came from funders also based in Texas.

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 · Texas · Housing

Who funds housing in Texas

Housing funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Foundation Communities Inc leads, and the money reaches 1,028 groups.

$1.4B

granted

1,028

organizations

67%

from in-state

The short version

3,065 funders gave $1.4B to 1,028 housing organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
67% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of housing in Texas is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $62M.
The housing organization drawing the most is Foundation Communities Inc, at $62M.

Largest funders of housing in Texas

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$62M 2Greater Houston Community Foundation$56M 3The Chicago Community Trust$55M 4Mary E Bivins Trust$46M 5St David's Foundation$42M 6Habitat for Humanity International Inc$38M 7Communities Foundation of Texas Inc$38M 8Paso del Norte Community Foundation$37M 9Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$25M 10Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$23M

Housing organizations in Texas that draw the most

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

1,018 other housing organizations$967M

Foundation Communities Inc$62M Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County$40M Austin Street Center$35M

How to find housing funders in Texas

1
Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to housing in Texas are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Greater Houston Community Foundation, 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
33% of housing money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in Texas, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Greater Houston Community Foundation, 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 Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Texas?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Texas, $62M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Texas?: $1.4B reached 1,028 housing organizations in Texas, from 3,065 funders. 67% came from funders also based in Texas.
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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

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.