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Heights Community Development Corporation

Heights Community Development Corporation (Tennessee) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,609,068 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($315,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$43k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$765k
10/16 repeat funders
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $28k → $811k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Heights Community Development Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

Heights Community Development Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

20%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 35% · 2021 51% · 2022 45% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

45% of Heights Community Development Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

60% of Heights Community Development Corporation's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

WA
MI
NY
CA
TN
DC
FL

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

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’18
’19
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’22
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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Heights Community Development Corporation's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−83% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 45 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

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04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Heights Community Development Corporation?
Heights Community Development Corporation (Tennessee) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,609,068 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($315,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Heights Community Development Corporation have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,609,068 in grants to Heights Community Development Corporation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Heights Community Development Corporation?
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Heights Community Development Corporation 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 FY2026 (financials across 2026–2026), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing