Maryland · Nonprofit
HOMES NOT BORDERS INC
HOMES NOT BORDERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,637 to it, the largest being The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation ($125,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $984k
- Net assets
- $473k
What Homes Not Borders Inc does
Mission
Homes not borders helps newly resettled refugees through collecting donations for them and then helping refugees with household items and furnishing, along with providing the with job training in carpentry and career mentorships for corporate jobs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Homes not borders was established in june 2019. Since then, homes not borders main program has been to provide furniture and household items to new refugees and displaced persons in the dc area upon resettlement. Homes not borders also collects donated furniture and household items from donors. Additionally, homes not borders had two smaller programs in artisan empowerment (helping refugee artisans sell and make homegoods) and cash assistance for those seeking career mentoring.
$1,134,638 spentof which $28,800 as grants$55,375 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,134,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $47k to $704k (+1383%).
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.
92% of HOMES NOT BORDERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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
Samad Saifudin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $53k → $188k.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 HOMES NOT BORDERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
HOMES NOT BORDERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
56% 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 HOMES NOT BORDERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% — 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
HOMES NOT BORDERS INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $395k 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
HOMES NOT BORDERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOMES NOT BORDERS INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMES NOT BORDERS INC: 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 HOMES NOT BORDERS INC?
- HOMES NOT BORDERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,637 to it, the largest being The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation ($125,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMES NOT BORDERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $983,637 in grants to HOMES NOT BORDERS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMES NOT BORDERS INC?
- The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMES NOT BORDERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 36 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