Virginia · Nonprofit
HOMEWARD
HOMEWARD (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,808,252 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,439,655). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Homeward does
Mission
Homeward's mission is to prevent, reduce, and end homelessness through the cooperation, coordination, and collaboration of regional resources and services. Foundedin 1998, Homeward is the planning agency that supports the greater richmond continuum of care, a network of homeless service providers that deliver coordinated and compassionate solutions to homelessness in the richmond region. Homeward facilitates the public coordinated funding processes, ensures funding compliance, researches and compiles best practices for homeless solutions, and provides recommendations based on lived experience in our region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeward's areas of expertise include person-centered data collection and analysis of the crisis of homelessness; housing-focused service coordination to solve homelessness in the richmond region; support for the regional application of more than $10 million annually in federal and state funding to maximize the impact of proven programs in our regional service coalition; developing cross-sector partnerships to fill critical community gaps; and, policy and regulatory knowledge on homelessness to move our efforts forward.
$1,896,600 spent$14,628 earned by the program76% of program spendingHomeward supports the homeless connection line, our region's largest triage and assessment program for services. The homeless connection line (hcl) is a multi-agency collaborative partnership which has been designed by local stakeholders to maximize limited resources to address homelessness. The hcl meets or exceeds federal regulations for coordinated access for community-based homeless assistance networks. The trained and compassionate staff at the hcl start by listening to each caller's unique situation and they record demographic and service usage data so that our homeless assistance network can target homeless assistance programs to make the biggest impact.
$198,651 spent8% of program spendingHomeward conducts participatory data analysis through interviews with people experiencing homelessness and through program level data collecting using the Homeward community information system (hcis.) hcis is a secure database used by homeless service providers to coordinate homeless assistance and to measure program and system level effectiveness. Homeward uses real-time, community-level data to target and align services, policies, and funding with client and community needs and to ensure compliance with federal reporting requirements so that our community can maximize funding to fight homelessness.
$412,329 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,507,580.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.1M to $2.4M (+125%).
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: 2019 43% · 2020 63% · 2021 91% · 2022 37% · 2023 63% · 2024 66% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HOMEWARD’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Kelly King Horne
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mark Hickman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $406k → $592k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 HOMEWARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
HOMEWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 HOMEWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 49% · 2019 38% · 2020 32% · 2021 63% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% — 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
35% of HOMEWARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
51% of HOMEWARD'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HOMEWARD's revenue grew 52% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOMEWARD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.6M
- Department of Labor$21k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOMEWARD
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMEWARD: 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 HOMEWARD?
- HOMEWARD (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,808,252 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,439,655). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOMEWARD have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,808,252 in grants to HOMEWARD, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMEWARD?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,439,655 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMEWARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 31 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