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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$248k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$5.3MHuman Services$2.0MHealth$711kPublic Safety & Disaster$363kPhilanthropy$160k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
$66,410
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $71k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $63k → 14%CRISIS CENTER OF SOUTH SUBURBS: $62k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $62k → 14%CRISIS CENTER OF SOUTH SUBURBS: $58k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $57k → 14%CRISIS CENTER OF SOUTH SUBURBS: $57k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $55k → 14%CRISIS CENTER OF SOUTH SUBURBS: $53k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $42k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $12k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $29k → 14%CRISIS CENTER OF SOUTH SUBURBS: $11k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS: $128k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS: $114k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS: $60k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS: $52k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS: $9k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $75k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $66k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $66k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $52k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $65k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $46k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $27k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $23k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $11k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $13k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $38k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $22k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $66k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S: $223k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $65k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S: $207k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC DBA JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S: $111k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $9k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S: $48k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 19 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

$8.3M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
-22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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 & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HF
    HOUSING FORWARD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +206%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $701k · revenue +3%
  • CF
    CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $586k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -22%
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
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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2
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
3
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
4
Community Supportive Living Systems

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
The Boulevard of Chicago Inc

Short-term shelter, health and social services for homeless adults who are recovering from illness and injury.

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
Domestic Violence Intervention Services

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…

Human Services
8
Community Networks Inc

Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals

Housing & Shelter
9
Central Illinois Services

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…

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10
Community & Home Supports Inc

We help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we develop, lead, and participate in collaborative and innovative efforts to support homeless people and advocate for fair, affordable and equitable housing.

Human Services
11
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
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
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 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.
04the grantee network

22 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSING FORWARD: $3,470,777 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARDCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $585,937 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INCWINGS PROGRAM INC: $262,888 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INCAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $588,797 · Human ServicesAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLN…NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $363,026 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST COMPASS INCRESPOND NOW: $282,530 · Human ServicesRESPOND NOWSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $281,683 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUBURBAN PADSCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $240,132 · Human ServicesCrisis Center for South Suburb…SARAH'S INN: $161,514 · Human ServicesSARAH'S INNPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $159,882 · Human ServicesPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE …TOGETHER WE COPE: $108,249 · Human Services+1 more: $59,529 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $700,995 · OtherCatholic Charities of …BEDS PLUS INC: $485,529 · OtherBEDS PLUS INCANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $215,120 · OtherANEW BUILDING BEYOND V…YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $100,135 · OtherYWCA EvanstonNorth Sho…CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $96,099 · OtherCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY …AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $62,567 · Other+1 more: $7,987 · OtherPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $96,929 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $25,364 · HealthUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $97,676 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$4,319,602Human Services$2,245,342Other$1,668,432Health$122,293Philanthropy$97,676

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 budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $3,470,777 over 8y, 12% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $700,995 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $588,797 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $585,937 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $485,529 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $363,026 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetRESPOND NOW: $282,530 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $281,683 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $262,888 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $240,132 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $215,120 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $161,514 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $159,882 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTOGETHER WE COPE: $108,249 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $100,135 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $97,676 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $96,929 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $96,099 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $62,567 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $59,529 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $25,364 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE: $7,987 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

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 Metropo…The Chicago Community…Housing ForwardBlowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Circle of Service Fou…George M Eisenberg Fo…Housing Action Illino…The Network Advocatin…Illinois Coalition Ag…Visiting Nurse Associ…Michael Reese Health …Northwestern Memorial…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL40.1× affinity17 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 · 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

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 Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    8report 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 22 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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