· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $5,831,572 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $36,049,073 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,217,501 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k13 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Unity Parenting | $518,141 |
| Deborah's Place | $487,424 |
| Renaissance Social Service Inc | $444,352 |
| The Night Ministry | $434,851 |
| Thresholds Inc | $386,930 |
| La Casa Norte | $366,197 |
| Boulevard of Chicago | $344,380 |
| Wholistic Alliance | $333,754 |
| Christian Community Health Center | $289,638 |
| Westside Health Authority | $252,372 |
| Of Color Inc | $247,390 |
| Housing Forward | $245,593 |
| Phoenix Foundation | $212,654 |
| Spanish Coalition | $197,198 |
| SGA Youth and Family Services | $166,149 |
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 (FY18–25, $7.1M) 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.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
- RSRenaissance Social Services Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +185%
- DPDEBORAH'S PLACE8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +33%
- UPUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- NLNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue -40%
- FFFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +31%
- ACALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +534%
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.
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 assist societys most disenfranchised; the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with AIDS and the physically challenged by promoting, fostering and providing the highest quality of housing and services in a…
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.
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.
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.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.
See schedule oas one of the most comprehensive hiv housing programs in the nation, interfaith residence dba doorways, an interfaith organization, offers various housing options and supportive services designed to meet the diverse needs of…
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.
To promote the rights of renters to safe, accessible, and affordable housing on a non-discriminatory basis through education, outreach, supportive services, advocacy, and legal representation.
Servicing the poor, homeless, amd mentally disabled
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing Forward to End Homelessness and the most unlike its peers is North Side Housing and Supportive 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 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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 Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds The Inner Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds Wholistic Alliance ↗
- Who funds Of Color Inc ↗
- Who funds SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Celesterling Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Universal Family Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
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: All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AIDS Foundation of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Cuore e Mani Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Circle of Service Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation
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 Center for Housing and Health 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.
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