Georgia · Nonprofit
CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS
CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,830 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $587k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless does
Mission
To lead the effort to build and sustain community practices to eliminate homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The authority collaborates and develops a continuum of services for the homeless including child and family development, low income housing development, community outreach, case management, education, training, literacy support, employment, health and nutrition, transportation,rent assistance, utilities assistance, and behavioral health services.
$1,655,382 spentof which $737,109 as grants76% of program spendingIn 2019, the authority completed construction of the first phase of the tiny house project. Phase one consists of 23 housing units, a clinic, and a clubhouse. All tenants are veterans of the united states armed forces who were previously homeless. Tenants pay rents of 240 per month if single, and 350 per month if married. Residents have access to support staff and case managers, employment search assistance, skill-building workships with an emphasis on building self-sufficiency. In 2020, the authority began construction on phase two of the tiny house community, which will included an additional 24 housing units and a clubhouse. These will also be for previously homeless veterans of the united states armed forces. Phase two came on-line in 2023.
$327,807 spent15% of program spendingThe homeless outreach team - a van was purchased with city of savannah grant funds. Caseworkers use this van to go out in the field to homeless encampments and provide various services to the homeless population.
$162,678 spent7% of program spendingChatham county blueprint grant program - provides services to reduce homelessness, coordinating the efforts of multiple agencies working to end homelessness in the region, including an outreach team that works directly with community members who need increased services due to mental health diagnosis; also includes sufficiency planning and resource referrals for education, employment, food, shelter, and healthcare.
$30,645 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,176,512.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+50%).
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 73% · 2018 69% · 2019 69% · 2020 66% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 80% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $38k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $35k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS raised.
From the IRS filings of CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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
CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
67% 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 CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 67% · 2019 78% · 2020 57% · 2021 36% · 2022 82% · 2023 80% — 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
30% of CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
67% of CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $194k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $393k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.7M
- Department of Labor$7k
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 CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS: 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 CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS?
- CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,830 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $586,830 in grants to CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS?
- The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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