· Public charity
Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging)
Ageoptions is committed to improving the quality of life and maintains the dignity of older persons and those who care about them through leadership and support, community partnerships, comprehensive services, accurate information and powerful advocacy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $448k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+21 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK | $5,121,815 |
| TOP BOX FOODS | $3,595,016 |
| PATHLIGHTS | $2,104,391 |
| LEGAL AID CHICAGO | $2,001,351 |
| NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER | $1,666,990 |
| KENNETH YOUNG CENTER | $1,457,864 |
| AGING CARE CONNECTIONS | $1,400,773 |
| PATCHWERKZ CHICAGO | $787,384 |
| METRO FAMILY SERV EVNSSKOKIE | $759,915 |
| MEALS AT HOME | $738,068 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITOR | $675,578 |
| OAK PARK TOWNSHIP | $635,312 |
| HANOVER TOWNSHIP | $627,004 |
| COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY | $583,693 |
| THE CENTER OF CONCERN | $575,278 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $75.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging)’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
167 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 108 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $676k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CNCOMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $35M · revenue +156% · 70% of their budget
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +4%
- LALEGAL AID CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +96%
Funded once
- OKOPEN KITCHENS INCone grant, 2020 · $462k
- CFCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLYone grant, 2020 · $184k
- AHASIAN HUMAN SERVICES FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $162k · revenue +71%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 273 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOP BOX FOODS ↗
- Who funds AGING CARE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds KENNETH YOUNG CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds HANUL FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A THE KOREAN-AMERICAN SR CTR ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CARE ↗
- Who funds XILIN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ASIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Seniors Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds PALATINE TOWNSHIP SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds Leyden Family Service & Mental Health Center ↗
- Who funds WHITE CRANE WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED ASIANS ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS AT HOME ↗
- Who funds ALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BERWYN-CICERO INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Metropolitan Mayors Caucus · Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area on Aging · Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging · Illinois Primary Health Care Association · Community Memorial Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · The Morton Arboretum · Lloyd a Fry Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging). Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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