Tennessee · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,312 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($220,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $465k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Jefferson County Habitat for Humanity does
Mission
Home construction and critical home repair for low income families and seniors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The most significant program accomplishment during the year was initiation of home building under the federally funded home investment partnerships program ("home"), which is administered by the tennessee housing development agency ("thda"). The program funds development of housing for sale to low-income households; and jchfh has accumulated construction costs of 792,750 for five homes, threee of which were substantially complete as of june 30, 2025 and were sold in july 2025. Habitat will recognize the income and the related construction costs upon closing of the sale of these homes. Habitat also qualified for 63,000 in administrative fees and 42,000 in developer's fees under the program, and these amounts were included in income during the year.
$85,670 spent$105,000 earned by the program80% of program spendingJchfh continued its critical home repair program, although grant funding was limited during the fiscal year. Projects this year included repairing a leaky roof, building a 40 foot handicap ramp, and replacing an electrical panel that was a fire hazard.
$21,757 spent$2,000 earned by the program20% of program spendingHome construction for low income families
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $107,427.
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.
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 $1.7M to $2.6M (+54%).
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 1% · 2021 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Spence Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $58k → $56k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’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
JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 54% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY'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 $183k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
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
40% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,312 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($220,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $414,312 in grants to JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing