Ohio · Nonprofit
THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION
THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,266,256 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ($22,039,995). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What The Homeless Families Foundation does
Mission
The Homeless Families Foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family rapid re-housing- housing program that works with families who have children under 18, referred directly from emergency shelter. Case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Clients are served an average of 8-10 months. Families served: 94 rapid-re-housing intensive- housing program that works with families who have children under 18 and have been in shelter multiple times. Clients are referred directly from emergency shelter. Case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Clients are served an average of 10-12 months. Families served: 35
$3,344,959 spentof which $1,688,355 as grants46% of program spendingPregnancy programs: jobs2housing: housing program that assists literally homeless pregnant women (shelter or streets). Case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Case managers also check on and assist with health insurance, prenatal care, wic, and other pregnancy-specific needs and services, including making sure items for baby are obtained. Clients stay in the program an average of 8-10 months. Families served: 41 homeless prevention for expectant mothers: housing program that assists pregnant women who are at risk of homelessness. Case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Case managers also check on and assist with health insurance, prenatal care, wic, and other pregnancy-specific needs and services, including making sure items for baby are obtained. Clients stay in the program an average of 12 months. Families served: 61
$685,926 spentof which $294,063 as grants9% of program spendingTransition-age youth housing programs: yhdp transitional housing- hff master-leases units for young people coming from literal homelessness (shelter or streets). Young people can stay in units for up to 2 years while they work on life skills, improving health, working on education/employment, and other goals as directed by client. Case managers assist with goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Clients can stay in transitional housing up to 2 years. Families served: 186 yhdp rapid re-housing- housing program that works with young people coming from literal homelessness or transitional housing. Case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Clients can be served up to 3 years. Families served: 147 odh- ohio department of health funds hff to operate a housing program serving youth who are literally homeless or imminently homeless. Hff utilizes this program to serve clients that cannot be served in our other youth programs, or…
$2,431,715 spentof which $1,046,509 as grants33% of program spendingSuccess bridge: partnership between hff and columbus state to assist homeless or housing unstable cscc students to become stably housed while working towards college graduation. Hff case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Cscc staff ensure that students are getting what they need academically, as well as linking them to other resources cscc provides. Clients can stay in the program for up to 2 years, or until graduation. Families served: 69 resiliency bridge: partnership between hff (housing provider) and workforce development programs such as goodwill, ohio means jobs, new directions, etc. Workforce programs refer clients who are enrolled in high pay/high demand career path programs and are in need of assistance with housing stability. Hff case managers help clients secure and maintain stable housing through goal planning, connection to community resources, home/community visits, financial assistance, advocacy, and assistance with basic needs. Workforce programs monitor clients progress in training programs and…
$838,314 spentof which $101,843 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,300,914.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $4.9M (+58%).
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: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 35% · 2021 77% · 2022 86% · 2023 75% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Stephanie Couhig
Hff chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $5.1M.
17 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 59% · 2019 63% · 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 76% · 2023 86% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
97% of THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio 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 14 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
THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION?
- THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,266,256 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ($22,039,995). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $29,266,256 in grants to THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $22,039,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 71 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