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FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,771,964 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($11,000,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
46
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
$54M
27/46 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Fort Worth Area Habitat for Humanity does

Mission

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Trinity habitat adheres to a strict non-proselytizing policy and will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Homeownership program (code 531390): families in need of a decent place to live build safe and affordable homes in partnership with us. Habitat houses are modestly sized. They are large enough for the homeowner family's needs but small enough to keep construction and maintenance costs affordable. By using the labor of volunteers and prospective homeowners, employing efficient building methods, keeping house sizes modest, and using donated construction materials and appliances, habitat makes its houses affordable for low-income families to purchase. Affordable homeownership helps create the conditions that free families from instability, stress and fear and encourage self-reliance and confidence. Studies show that strong and stable households are foundational to child development and growth. When a home fosters instead of hinders health and safety, families can flourish. Owning an affordable home also allows homeowners to lift up their entire family by saving for their futures and investing in educational opportunities, bolstering job opportunities and career growth. During 2025, trinity habitat built 29 new homes with 1,504 volunteers contributing 10,078 hours.

    $5,030,885 spent$3,909,711 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  2. Restore: to assist habitat in fulfilling its mission of bringing people together building homes, communities and hope, it operates four restores (thrift stores) that sell donated construction materials and merchandise as part of its program services. These stores are manned both by employees and volunteers and assist people who wish to make donations of household items. The proceeds of the sales of merchandise are utilized in the acquisition of land and construction of housing to fulfill our overall mission.

    $1,907,365 spent$2,589,569 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  3. Home preservation program (code 811000): our home preservation program is an outreach initiative that seeks to provide a wide range of opportunities for low-to moderate income homeowners, including veterans and seniors, who are struggling to maintain their homes because of age, disability, or family circumstances. We partner with families to help them reclaim their homes with pride and dignity. The program allows families to stay in their home and avoid the uncertainty, trauma, and expense of moving. Projects consist of interior and/or exterior repairs intended to alleviate critical health, life and safety issues or code violations. Volunteer teams work along with subcontractors under the direction of trinity habitat staff members to complete the repairs. During 2025, trinity habitat completed 123 pahs with 1,464 volunteers contributing 7,320 hours.

    $1,691,906 spent
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,630,156.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.4M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 132 ($11M) Expenses 134 ($10.0M) Net assets 107 ($17M)2019 Revenue 209 ($18M) Expenses 206 ($15M) Net assets 122 ($20M)2020 Revenue 185 ($16M) Expenses 170 ($13M) Net assets 140 ($23M)2021 Revenue 205 ($17M) Expenses 163 ($12M) Net assets 172 ($28M)2022 Revenue 360 ($30M) Expenses 199 ($15M) Net assets 269 ($43M)2023 Revenue 236 ($20M) Expenses 225 ($17M) Net assets 290 ($47M)2024 Revenue 211 ($18M) Expenses 181 ($13M) Net assets 316 ($51M)2025 Revenue 159 ($13M) Expenses 144 ($11M) Net assets 332 ($54M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (144)Net assets (332)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $29M to $44M (+54%).

$17M
$19M
$21M
$23M
$29M
$44M
$49M
$53M
$57M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 5% · 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 888 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’17
$1.2M
’18
$2.3M
’19
$2.9M
’20
$5.2M
’21
$16M
’22
$3.2M
’23
$4.3M
’24
$2.7M
’25
22
months of
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

Gage Yager

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Brian King

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232325242228211818
Joined·+5+6+6+3+8+4+2+3
No longer listed·547521153
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $758k → $885k.

20 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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

FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.

56%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 51% · 2019 63% · 2020 41% · 2021 28% · 2022 92% · 2023 45% — 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

42% of FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY'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 $6.3M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 9 states.

MN
IL
NY
RI
VA
NC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Trinity Lending Company LLC · disregarded
  • Habitat Neighborhood Partners · exempt
  • Habitat for Humanity International · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,771,964 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($11,000,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY have?
IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $19,771,964 in grants to FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $11,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing