Georgia · Nonprofit
House of Cherith Inc
House of Cherith Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,976,658 to it, the largest being CITY OF REFUGE ($7,135,634). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $0
What House of Cherith Inc does
Mission
House of Cheriths focus is to provide safe housing and supporting services where women can recover from the trauma of sexual exploitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective November 1 2025 House of Cherith made significant changes in how it conducts its program services as part of a strategic restructuring and integration with City of Refuge Inc. a tax-exempt organization described under Section 501c3. House of Cherith transferred substantially all of its operating assets and related liabilities to City of Refuge Inc. which assumed responsibility for the continuation and delivery of the related charitable programs and services. House of Cherith did not dissolve or cease to exist as a legal or tax-exempt organization and continues to function while undergoing organizational restructuring and evaluating its future charitable activities.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
House of Cherith provided residential recovery and supportive services to women who were survivors of sexual exploitation trafficking and related trauma. Through November 1 2025 the organization provided a safe and supportive residential environment together with case management counseling life-skills development and other services designed to promote healing stability independence and long-term restoration. Effective November 1 2025 these program operations were transitioned to City of Refuge Inc. a Section 501c3 nonprofit organization as part of the transfer of House of Cheriths operating assets and related liabilities.
$2,768,727 spentof which $100,000 as grants$376,277 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,768,727.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.1M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 13% · 2023 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of House of Cherith 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. 3 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
Kelsi Franco
CEO
Board chair
Bruce Deel
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.0M.
14 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 House of Cherith Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
House of Cherith Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
88% 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 House of Cherith Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 69% · 2020 95% · 2021 87% · 2022 79% · 2023 54% — 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
20% of House of Cherith Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
93% of House of Cherith Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $528k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
House of Cherith Inc's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like House of Cherith 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 House of Cherith 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 House of Cherith Inc?
- House of Cherith Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,976,658 to it, the largest being CITY OF REFUGE ($7,135,634). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does House of Cherith Inc have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $10,976,658 in grants to House of Cherith Inc, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of House of Cherith Inc?
- CITY OF REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $7,135,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like House of Cherith Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 51 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