Coalition For The Homeless

Name

Coalition For The Homeless

Legal name

Coalition for the Homeless

Website

https://louhomeless.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Coalition For The Homeless is a non-profit organization that provides advocacy and community education about homelessness.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Homeless and Housing Services

NAICS

Community Housing Services (62422), Temporary Shelters (624221), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Homelessness Prevention, Shelter & Supportive Housing Services (BPAIANAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Housing Assistance & Homeless Services (BPAGAEAB), Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• Homeless services
• Continuum of care
• Community advocacy
• Nonprofit coordination
• Housing assistance

Headquarters

HQ city

Louisville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Federal Government Grants: As the CoC Lead for Louisville, the Coalition receives and distributes HUD Continuum of Care funding to member agencies. The Coalition was awarded $23.3 million in FY25 to support 48 projects across 17 organizations.
2. Private Foundation Grants: Major grants from foundations such as the $5 million Bezos Day 1 Families Fund (largest private gift in organization history) to fund family homelessness solutions over five years.
3. Individual Donations: Public donations through website, events, and direct mail to support the Coalition's mission and programs.
4. Fundraising Events: Annual events such as the Bourbon Mixer which raised $160,000 in 2023 (and over $600,000 cumulatively since 2014).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Coalition For The Homeless is a nonprofit advocacy and coordination organization that operates as the Continuum of Care Lead for Louisville/Jefferson County. It distributes federal HUD funding to a network of more than 40 member agencies, conducts system-wide advocacy for policy change, and delivers community education programs about homelessness, all supported by an HMIS data management system used across partner agencies.

Product overview

Coalition For The Homeless operates as a nonprofit advocacy organization offering a coordinated suite of services to prevent and end homelessness in Louisville. The core offerings consist of three integrated pillars: advocacy for policy change, community education programs, and coordination of the Continuum of Care system with 40+ member agencies. Supporting infrastructure includes an HMIS data management system, a coordinated entry system for connecting people to services, and resource guides like the Louisville Street Tips booklet. The organization does not offer a technology product in the traditional SaaS sense, but rather provides advocacy, education, and coordination services to the homeless services ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Advocacy Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 97-98% success rate keeping people housed over the past decade
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Louisville Affordable Housing Trust FundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-hosting the Beyond the Bridge film screening with multiple partner organizations to raise awareness about homelessness and permanent supportive housing solutions.
• Metro United WaycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Beyond the Bridge film screening and ongoing collaboration as part of the Continuum of Care system for homelessness services in Louisville.
• Metropolitan Housing CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-hosting community events and collaborating on housing policy and advocacy efforts.
• Louisville Downtown PartnershipminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in community events raising awareness about homelessness and housing solutions.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• National Alliance to End Homelessness: National policy and advocacy organization focused on preventing and ending homelessness in the U.S. — directly comparable in mission, advocacy function, and data/research orientation to Coalition for the Homeless' systems coordination role.
• National Coalition for the Homeless: National grassroots network advocating for people experiencing homelessness through policy, education, and organizing — highly comparable in advocacy and community-education programmatic pillars to Coalition for the Homeless.
• Community Solutions: Nonprofit that leads the Built for Zero initiative helping communities achieve functional zero on homelessness — directly comparable because Louisville's veteran functional-zero achievement was driven by similar methodology.
• Corporation for Supportive Housing: National nonprofit that advances supportive housing for vulnerable populations through financing, technical assistance, and policy — closely comparable to Coalition for the Homeless in coordinating permanent supportive housing programs with strong outcome metrics.

Broad incumbents

• United Way Worldwide: Largest U.S. private fundraising and community-impact coordination organization — comparable as a multi-agency funding coordinator and CoC-adjacent partner (Metro United Way is explicitly a Coalition collaborator), though at much greater scale and broader scope.
• Catholic Charities USA: National network of Catholic Charities agencies providing homelessness and family services — one of the Coalition's named member/recipient agencies and a direct service counterpart within the CoC ecosystem.
• Volunteers of America: National nonprofit providing housing, behavioral health, and human services — another named Coalition partner delivering direct homeless services under the Louisville CoC umbrella.

Emerging players

• National Low Income Housing Coalition: Advocacy organization dedicated to ending America's affordable housing crisis — adjacent peer sharing the upstream policy and advocacy mission around the structural causes Coalition for the Homeless addresses locally.
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council: National organization working to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness through training, research, and advocacy — partial overlap on the supportive-services dimension of the Coalition's work.

Others

• HUD Exchange: HUD's official resource platform providing training and technical assistance to CoCs and HMIS lead agencies — not a competitor but a critical infrastructure provider the Coalition relies on for federal compliance and best practices.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/louhomeless
• Facebookfacebook.com/louhomeless
• Instagraminstagram.com/coalitionforhomeless

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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