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Who funds homeless shelters? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

Name: homeless shelter grant funding data (Grant Graph)
Creator: Grant Graph
License: public domain sources; compilation freely citable with attribution

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 467 grants totaling $13.7 million went to homeless shelters-related work. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of homeless shelters, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC	8	$1.4 million
CORNUCOPIA FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	$1.0 million
THE ARHANT SOCIAL FOUNDATION INC	1	$760,943
EDWYNN BURCKLE PRIVATE FOUNDATION	5	$674,505
DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST	2	$542,100
CITI FOUNDATION	1	$500,000
LUCY GOODING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST	2	$500,000
Maine Community Foundation Inc	8	$480,204
MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC	5	$465,000
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	$302,128

Across all funders: 467 grants, $13.7 million total, median grant $7,990.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
FL	27	$1.5 million
CT	16	$1.5 million
VA	11	$1.4 million
MI	15	$1.3 million
NC	19	$1.2 million
ME	28	$809,078

Open federal opportunities addressing homeless shelters (nonprofit-eligible)

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "homeless shelter"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: homelessness, housing insecurity, unhoused, supportive housing.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
PAR-25-310	Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported Pr	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2027
PDR-2600-DC-0USP	Authority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships Notice of In	Department of Housing and Urban Development	unspecified	06/09/2027
CPD-2600-DC-0035	Youth Homelessness NOFO for FY2024 and FY2025	Department of Housing and Urban Development	$500,000 to $15.0 million	08/10/2026
HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-CY-0159	FY2026 Runaway Homeless Youth Training, Technical Assistance, and Capacity Build	Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB	$1.8 million to $2.5 million	08/14/2026
HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-AP-0003	Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS)	Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB	$750,000 to $900,000	08/18/2026
HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-CY-0160	National Communication System for Runaway and Homeless Youth Program	Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB	$1.0 million to $1.8 million	08/19/2026
CPD-2600-DC-0025	FY 2026 Continuum of Care Competition and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Progr	Department of Housing and Urban Development	$2,500 to $25.0 million	08/26/2026
VPL-01-23	Announcement of Stand Down Grants		up to $10,000	09/30/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 28 listings mentioning "homeless shelters" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.