· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+21 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
How this is measured
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMetropolitan Family Services3× · 2022–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +51%
- ASA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +53%
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IAILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY AUDITORS AND FINANCE OFFICERSone grant, 2020 · $238k
- HOHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $226k · revenue -16%
- DPDUPAGE PADS INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
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.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
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.
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…
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.
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…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
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…
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 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.
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
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.
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