South Carolina · Nonprofit
FRONT PORCH HOUSING
FRONT PORCH HOUSING (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,451 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($163,662). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $553k
- Net assets
- $-759651
What Front Porch Housing does
Mission
Front Porch Housing's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing and supportive services economically and socially, within the context of the church community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Front porch, housing operates a multi-year supportive housing program providing safe, affordable housing and supportive services for individuals and families experiencing housing instability and crisis. Services include case management, financial literacy, workforce development, transportation assistance, childcare, youth programming, and community support designed to promote long-term stability, employment, continued recovery, and financial independence. Through housing and supportive services provided within the context of intentional community, the organization served hundreds of adults and children during the year and helped residents build pathways toward permanent stability and self-sufficiency.
$3,723,100 spent$1,276,140 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,723,100.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $17M (−3%).
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.
69% of FRONT PORCH HOUSING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Lee Anne Cavin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $59k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 FRONT PORCH HOUSING’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
FRONT PORCH HOUSING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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
84% 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 FRONT PORCH HOUSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of FRONT PORCH HOUSING'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 $103k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k 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
FRONT PORCH HOUSING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRONT PORCH HOUSING
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fp Properties LLC · disregarded
- Grace Community Church of Sc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRONT PORCH HOUSING: 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 FRONT PORCH HOUSING?
- FRONT PORCH HOUSING (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,451 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($163,662). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRONT PORCH HOUSING have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $553,451 in grants to FRONT PORCH HOUSING, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRONT PORCH HOUSING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $163,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRONT PORCH HOUSING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 16 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