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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “homesless”
Where the money went
Hoveida Family FoundationBainbridge Island, WA
10 matching grants · $250,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to THE BOWERY MISSION — provide emergency homesless shelter, food, and/or clothing to unhoused populations in cold weather areas
Largest: $25,250 to Transitions — help homesless women with children transitions out of poverty
Largest: $3,000 to SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION — homeslessness support services and food bank
Largest: $25,000 to THE MIAMI FOUNDATION — miami-dade county homesless trust
Space Coast Health FoundationRockledge, FLCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $20,000 · through 2022Largest: $20,000 to DAILY BREAD — homesless support
Largest: $10,000 to OPERATION SAFE HOUSE — operation safehouse emergency shelter for runaway homesless and at-risk youth
Largest: $10,000 to LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT — vetinary care for homesless animals
The Larson LegacyHappy Valley, OR
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2021Largest: $10,000 to MERCY HAVEN INC — housing and services for mentally challenged homesless
Largest: $5,000 to FELLOWSHIP MISSIONS — homesless shelter
Cody FoundationBoca Raton, FL
1 matching grant · $3,750 · through 2023Largest: $3,750 to THE DOE FUND — to help end homeslessness, economic injustice and recidivism.
Largest: $2,500 to PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE — for providing shelter and protection to lost, homesless and unwanted animals.
Community Foundation of Northeast AlabamaAnniston, ALCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $31,364 · through 2024Largest: $31,364 to United Way of East Central Alabama — organized united appeals fundraising effort that improves the lives of children in calhoun county; martha's hope: food and necessitites for the homesless; hopeuntied - prevention e…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →