Tennessee · Nonprofit
JOURNEY HOME INC
JOURNEY HOME INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,142,728 to it, the largest being CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ($1,520,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Journey Home Inc does
Mission
The journey home is a christian ministry whose primary focus is to serve the homeless and disadvantaged of rutherford county, tn. Providing practical resources and relationships that encourage faith, economic stability, wholeness, and reintegration in the community life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The journey home provided hunger relief to the homeless and needy in the community through our community cafe program. During 2024, we served meals seven days a week, providing over 55,500 meals. Additionally, the community cafe program provided boxes of food staples, dairy and produce. Approximately 1,000 boxes were distributed to clients of our outreach center. The cafe bread room also provides bread and baked goods daily for clients to take as they leave the center. All of this is provided at no charge to the clients to meet basic nutritional needs as well as being an engagement tool for other programs.
$152,246 spentof which $24,246 as grants8% of program spendingThe journey home provided overnight shelter, housing, case management and supportive services through our housing programs. Housing programs range in scope, including cold weather, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention services which keep people from losing their housing and becoming homeless, re-housing of the homeless into marketplace housing, and our supportive services as they get back on their feet and reintegrate into community life. The shelter program operates seasonally from november to april. Other programs operate year- round.
$1,521,582 spentof which $947,217 as grants$204,232 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe journey home assisted the homeless and needy and clothing, laundry, showers, hygiene items, medical assistance, transportation assistance, mail and phone service, computer lab, identification documents, counseling/coaching, financial assistance and service coordination through the outreach center.
$264,278 spentof which $97,993 as grants14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,938,106.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $5.9M (+111%).
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: 2020 39% · 2021 36% · 2022 22% · 2023 12% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Scott Foster
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $64k → $578k.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 JOURNEY HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
JOURNEY HOME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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
65% 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 JOURNEY HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 43% · 2019 45% · 2020 36% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 23% — 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
47% of JOURNEY HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
91% of JOURNEY HOME INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M 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.
Government funding JOURNEY HOME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.2M
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 JOURNEY HOME 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 Tennessee
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOURNEY HOME 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 JOURNEY HOME INC?
- JOURNEY HOME INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,142,728 to it, the largest being CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ($1,520,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOURNEY HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $5,142,728 in grants to JOURNEY HOME INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOURNEY HOME INC?
- CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOURNEY HOME INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 41 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