North Carolina · Nonprofit
CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE
CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,218,886 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($469,311). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $674k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $69k
What City With Dwellings Community First Initiative does
Mission
To build a supportive community around persons experiencing homelessness in winston-salem & forsyth county, nc. Connecting the wider community with homeless persons working to meet housing, health, and employment goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Diversion outreach: case coordination and street outreach.winter shelter: a community first initiative operates a winter emergency overflow shelter from december 1 through march 31. Community first center: the community first center provides both group and one-on-one support to help guests navigate the complex system of housing resources, as well as medical and dental clinics, food pantries, and clothing closets. Additionally, the cfc offers anger and anxiety management, meditation, peer-to-peer support groups, and horticulture and art therapy.
$544,717 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $544,717.
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 2023 to 2024, from $426k to $251k (−41%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 56% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Ruth Burcaw
Executive director
Board chair
Julia Toone
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $52k → $187k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE’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
CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2019 49% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 63% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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 CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
54% of CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE'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 $561k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $657k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE?
- CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,218,886 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($469,311). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,218,886 in grants to CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE?
- The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $469,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 25 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