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All Chicago Making Homelessness History

ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY leads chicago's collaborative effort to ensure that everyone has a place to call home.

$44M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$27MHuman Services$16MCrime & Legal$5.1MHealth$4.3MCommunity Improvement$1.3MReligion$919kEducation$842kEmployment$611kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $16,367,804, the rows itemized in this filing. The $44,116,635 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,748,831 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+21 grants · $12M
$196,915
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$1,793,777
RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES$1,071,083
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ILLINOIS$955,650
A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION$753,126
FIRST CHURCH OF THE TRUE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST$731,260
SARAH'S CIRCLE$694,153
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS$649,750
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$647,792
FRESH PATH INC$603,666
THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC$561,361
FEATHERFIST$558,596
WINGS PROGRAM INC$485,348
WHOLISTIC ALLIANCE$411,080
FRANCISCAN OUTREACH$410,803
INNER VOICE INC$374,300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $18.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.8M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.5M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $663k → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $170k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $650k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $466k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $458k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $454k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $381k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $378k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $281k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $120k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $73k → 14%METRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $108k → 14%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $76k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE INC: $74k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $559k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $505k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $452k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $440k → 14%FEATHERFIST: $125k → 14%FRESH PATH INC: $604k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $374k → 14%THE INNER VOICE: $374k → 14%THE INNER VOICE: $162k → 14%THE INNER VOICE: $146k → 14%OF COLOR INC: $371k → 14%OF COLOR INC: $225k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $176k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $68k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $157k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $84k → 14%ATD NEIGHBORHOOD RELIEF COALITION INC: $147k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $93k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $75k → 14%JOURNEYSTHE ROAD HOME: $151k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $370k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $323k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $319k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $290k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $282k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $282k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $273k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $259k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS: $74k → 14%IGNITE ORG: $159k → 14%IGNITE: $82k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51M · 77 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
54

Total granted

$51M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+46%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +51%
  • AS
    A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +53%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IA
    ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY AUDITORS AND FINANCE OFFICERS
    one grant, 2020 · $238k
  • HO
    HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $226k · revenue -16%
  • DP
    DUPAGE PADS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $217k · revenue +66%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
2
Collective Chicago

To disrupt cycles of poverty with dignified transitional housing that hoslistically connects young men to opportunities that create and sustain personal, professional and relational growth.

Housing & Shelter
3
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
4
Hcp of Illinois Inc

To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.

Housing & Shelter
5
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
6
You Can Make It

Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.

Human Services
7
Southwest Chicago Homeless Services

To provide food, clothing, case management and placement in housing, as well as referrals for additional supportive services. a commitment to helping homeless and housing-insecure persons and strive to end homelessness in our communities…

Human Services
8
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
9
House of the Good Shepherd

House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…

Human Services
10
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
11
Housing Options for the Mentally-Ill in Evanston Inc

We empower participants living with mental illness through individualized housing, employment, and clinical services so they can achieve their goals and live as independently as possible.

Health
12
Shelter Inc

Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Street Medicine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 142 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/126
Grantees still filing
102/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Metropolitan Family Services: $3,955,128 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family ServicesRenaissance Social Services Inc: $2,530,178 · Human ServicesRenaissance Social Services IncHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $2,397,261 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INCFEATHERFIST: $2,081,624 · Human ServicesFEATHERFISTFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,630,297 · Human ServicesFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESSThe Inner Voice Inc: $1,109,622 · Human ServicesThe Inner Voice IncFresh Path Inc: $653,715 · Human ServicesOf Color Inc: $645,627 · Human Services+33 more: $3,329,300 · Human Services+33 moreCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $2,990,686 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Arch…VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ILLINOIS: $2,652,261 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA ILLINOISUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC: $1,002,990 · OtherUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING I…FRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $951,456 · OtherFRANCISCAN OUTREACHFIRST CHURCH OF THE TRUE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST: $802,392 · OtherLegal Council for Health Justice: $747,069 · Other+49 more: $6,116,109 · Other+49 moreTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $2,124,093 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO …SARAH'S CIRCLE: $1,845,760 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLECenter for Housing and Health: $1,536,391 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Housing and He…WINGS PROGRAM INC: $1,473,419 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INCLA CASA NORTE: $1,344,309 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTEDEBORAH'S PLACE II: $1,228,719 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE IIAPNA GHAR INC: $570,241 · Housing & ShelterSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $547,880 · Housing & Shelter+15 more: $2,280,186 · Housing & Shelter+15 moreA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $3,400,692 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN F…TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES: $1,935,524 · HealthTREATMENT ALTE…HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $795,917 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLI…Celesterling Foundation: $273,827 · Health+7 more: $626,857 · Health+7 moreSCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION: $822,904 · EducationPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $487,051 · EducationCornerstone Community Outreach: $443,232 · Community ImprovementWILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS: $215,000 · Community ImprovementEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $176,954 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood Inc: $118,324 · Community Improvement+1 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementChristian Community Health Center: $632,555 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $187,932 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $109,238 · Philanthropy+2 more: $18,833 · Philanthropy
Human Services$18,332,752Other$15,262,963Housing & Shelter$12,950,998Health$7,032,817Education$1,309,955Community Improvement$968,510Philanthropy$948,558

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $3,955,128 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $3,400,692 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $2,990,686 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc: $2,530,178 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $2,397,261 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $2,124,093 over 5y, 12% of budgetFEATHERFIST: $2,081,624 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES: $1,935,524 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $1,845,760 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,630,297 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetCenter for Housing and Health: $1,536,391 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $1,473,419 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $1,344,309 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE II: $1,228,719 over 5y, 60% of budgetThe Inner Voice Inc: $1,109,622 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC: $1,002,990 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $951,456 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION: $822,904 over 3y, 24% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $795,917 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $747,069 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetFresh Path Inc: $653,715 over 2y, 100% of budgetOf Color Inc: $645,627 over 3y, 15% of budgetChristian Community Health Center: $632,555 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAPNA GHAR INC: $570,241 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $547,880 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $487,051 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCornerstone Community Outreach: $443,232 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $429,466 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $413,936 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWholistic Alliance: $411,080 over 1y, 14% of budgetPHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $409,669 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $366,637 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetIGNITE: $343,533 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $314,943 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetEmmaus Ministries: $307,454 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $296,482 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCelesterling Foundation: $273,827 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $253,878 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOptions for Housing Inc: $253,282 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $234,160 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $217,424 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCALL FOR HELP INC: $216,372 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS: $215,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $193,158 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $187,932 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLaw Center for Better Housing: $185,224 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $176,954 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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 Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds FEATHERFIST ↗
  • Who funds TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds Center for Housing and Health ↗
  • Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE II ↗
  • Who funds The Inner Voice Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds SCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
  • Who funds Fresh Path Inc ↗
  • Who funds Of Color Inc ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds APNA GHAR INC ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone Community Outreach ↗
  • Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Wholistic Alliance ↗
  • Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Emmaus Ministries ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL93× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Cuore e Mani Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization All Chicago Making Homelessness History funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from All Chicago Making Homelessness History. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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