National Voluntary Organizations Active
Alexandria, VA · EIN 52-1830327. Reported 58 grants totalling $1,247,132 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $23,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $28,500; the smallest was $5,126 and the largest $44,460. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
53 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,106,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Endeavors Inc | San Antonio, TX | $100,060 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Toolbank USA Inc | Atlanta, GA | $72,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | San Dimas, CA | $58,600 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maryland Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster | Annapolis, MD | $58,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rebuilding Together New Orleans Inc | New Orleans, LA | $58,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mennonite Disaster Service | Lititz, PA | $54,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | Mattapoisett, MA | $54,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Baptist Men | Cary, NC | $53,600 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Disaster Services Corporation - Society of St Vincent De Paul USA | Irving, TX | $48,950 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Americus, GA | $46,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fuller Center Disaster Rebuilders Inc | Americus, GA | $42,550 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christian Church (disciples of Christ) | Eldon, MO | $41,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Policyholders | San Francisco, CA | $34,612 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The United Church of Christ | Cleveland, OH | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rebuilding Together Acadiana | Lafayette, LA | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Church of the Brethren | Elgin, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mississippi Voad | Hattiesburg, MS | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Church World Service Inc | Elkhart, IN | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| General Assembly of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity Internal Inc | Wilmington, NC | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| River Region United Way | Montgomery, AL | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh Inc | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church | Lakeland, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Georgia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Inc | Kathleen, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Convoy of Hope Foundation | Springfield, MO | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas Inc | Salisbury, NC | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tennessee Baptist Mission Board | Franklin, TN | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pennsylvania Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster | Uniontown, PA | $20,520 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| R3SM Inc | Hattiesburg, MS | $18,240 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Conference of the UMC | Baton Rougue, LA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Missouri Baptist Convention | Jefferson Cty, MO | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of Acadiana Inc | Lafayette, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Social & Community Services | Gulfport, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Sherman, TX | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Bernard Project Inc | New Orleans, LA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Delaware Voad Inc | Milford, DE | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nechama-Jewish Disaster Response | Saint Paul, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc | Wheeling, WV | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | New Orleans, LA | $6,749 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Inc | Lumberton, NJ | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Orthodox Christian Charities Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,126 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 41 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity
LOWE'S RECONSTRUCTION GRANT - SPRING 2023 - All Hands and Hearts-Smart Response
PROGRAM EXPENSES- LOWE'S RECONSTRUCTION GRANT - SPRING 2023 - Nc Baptist Menbaptists on Mission
PROGRAM EXPENSES- LOWE'S RECONSTRUCTION GRANT - SUMMER2023
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $258,912 | $19,700 |
| 2022 | 30 | $584,660 | $18,500 |
| 2023 | 16 | $403,560 | $28,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $23,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Voluntary Organizations Active's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 26125, Alexandria, VA, 22313.
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