Maryland · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC
ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,291,238 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($522,245). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $727k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $594k
What Advocates for Homeless Families Inc does
Mission
Advocates for homeless families' mission is to achieve permanent solutions to homelessness by providing access to housing, education, and supportive services to frederick county families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Families achieve success through a two-year structured program focused on life skills training and intensive case management services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Families forward - to provide rental assistance to prevent evictions and other support to help low-income families reestablishing households.
$372,096 spentof which $210,676 as grants53% of program spendingEmergency transitional housing - to provide transitional housing for homeless families through a one or two year structured program of education and support.
$330,095 spentof which $30,187 as grants$43,357 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $702,191.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $841k to $973k (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 46% · 2019 30% · 2020 40% · 2021 55% · 2022 62% · 2023 65% · 2024 40% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shiara Jackson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $102k → $146k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 48% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $627k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $99k on record — $49k federal, $50k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$49k
- Grant$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC?
- ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,291,238 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($522,245). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,291,238 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $522,245 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing