· Public charity
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
The mission of the alliance to end homelessness is to strive for the elimination of homelessness in suburban cook county through the coordination and maximization of available resources to assist homeless individuals and families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSING FORWARD | $247,600 |
| BEDS PLUS | $237,517 |
| CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS | $153,248 |
| UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO | $97,676 |
| PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $84,185 |
| WINGS | $77,565 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $71,457 |
| SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS | $71,042 |
| RESPOND NOW | $66,410 |
| JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME | $65,054 |
| NORTHWEST COMPASS | $60,475 |
| CRISIS CENTER OF SOUTH SUBURBS | $57,216 |
| ANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE | $52,893 |
| ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES | $37,965 |
| EVNORTHSHORE YWCA | $35,014 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HFHOUSING FORWARD8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +206%
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $701k · revenue +3%
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $586k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHOREone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
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.
Short-term shelter, health and social services for homeless adults who are recovering from illness and injury.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…
Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
The purpose of the center for hope and safety is to provide a safe environment for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking and to educate the public about the issues surrounding victimization.
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Proactive Community Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds RESPOND NOW ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds ANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
- Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Housing Forward · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Housing Action Illinois · The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence · Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.