Tennessee · Nonprofit
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,556,763 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($7,500,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis does
Mission
Habitat for humanity is an international ecumenical christian housing ministry that aims to eliminate substandard housing and make safe, healthy and affordable shelter for all people a matter of conscience and action. Hfh makes home ownership (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Construction of homes for low income families. These homes were built on house sponsorships from local, civic, and community donations. Additional hud funding, specifically designated for the construction of homes for low-income families, was also awarded to the organization and used in the additional construction of homes made available to low-income families. All homes constructed were built in existing or new community developments to help families build a community atmosphere and provide a foundation for their success.(continued on schedule o)
$15,296,798 spent$8,714,660 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,296,798.
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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $27M (+95%).
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 27% · 2018 5% · 2019 32% · 2020 36% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 34% · 2024 20% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Dwayne Spencer
President & CEO
Board chair
Gerre Currie
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $544k → $308k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS’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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 72% · 2019 47% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 97% · 2023 44% — broadly stable.
“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
36% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS'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
65% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS'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 $4.4M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS's revenue grew 61% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS: 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,556,763 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($7,500,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $12,556,763 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $7,500,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing