Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS
GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $933,518 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($525,694). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $808k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $934k
- Net assets
- $357k
What Gifts for the Homeless does
Mission
GFTH serves the Washington DC-area homeless population by providing donated used clothing, blankets, toiletries, and related items to area homeless support organizations and by using monetary donations to purchase new clothing and blankets that the organization distributes to homeless support organizations that, in turn, distribute them to the Washington DC-area homeless population.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
New clothing purchases: The organization purchases from wholesalers socks, underwear, hats, gloves, sweatshirts and sweatpants, jackets, blankets, and other items and donates these items to Washington DC-area homeless support organizations. GFTH makes these new clothing donations primarily during the late fall and winter, in order to allow homeless support organizations to provide warm clothing and blankets to the homeless population they serve. GFTH collects funds to purchase new clothing and blankets from wholesale suppliers throughout the year.
$413,828 spent51% of program spendingUsed Clothing Drive: Beginning in October, area law firms, corporations, and other entities with ties to the Washington, DC legal community ask their employees to donate used clothing, blankets, toiletries, and related items and to make monetary contributions for the purchase of new clothing and blankets. Other individuals in the community who are not associated with these organizations or the legal community also provide donations for the purchase of new clothing and blankets. Each participating entity collects used clothing, toiletries, blankets and related items during the first weekend of December. Volunteers sort these donated items and assist in delivering these items to homeless support organizations in the Washington, DC area. The entire process occurs during a three-day weekend. The expenses listed here include the value of goods that GFTH distributed during the used clothing drive. Members of the board covered the costs of expenses necessary to execute the drive.
$391,553 spent49% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $805,381.
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 $307k to $91k (−70%).
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.
100% of GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $165k → $26k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS’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
GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 58% · 2019 75% · 2020 82% · 2021 91% · 2022 58% · 2023 66% — 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
25% of GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of GIFTS 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 $83k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $850k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GIFTS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS?
- GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $933,518 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($525,694). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $933,518 in grants to GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $525,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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