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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.

$36M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$518k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$21MHealth$446kEmployment$80kHuman Services$68k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $5,831,572, the rows itemized in this filing. The $36,049,073 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,217,501 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 · FY2025

  • $50k–250k13 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.9M
$245,593
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Renaissance Social Service Inc: $493k → 14%Renaissance Social Service Inc: $444k → 14%Renaissance Social Service Inc: $416k → 14%Renaissance Social Service Inc: $415k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $350k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $239k → 14%Heartland Human Care Services: $150k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $30k → 14%SGA Youth and Family Services: $166k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $19k → 14%SGA Youth and Family Services: $6k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $3k → 14%The Night Ministry: $500k → 14%The Night Ministry: $489k → 14%The Night Ministry: $435k → 14%The Night Ministry: $382k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $117k → 14%Thresholds Inc: $387k → 14%Thresholds Inc: $283k → 14%Thresholds Inc: $214k → 14%Thresholds Inc: $201k → 14%THRESHOLDS INC: $169k → 14%THRESHOLDS INC: $147k → 14%THRESHOLDS INC: $66k → 14%THRESHOLDS INC: $46k → 14%Inner Voice Inc: $67k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $64k → 14%Inner Voice Inc: $63k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $62k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $61k → 14%Inner Voice Inc: $60k → 14%Of Color Inc: $247k → 14%Inner Voice Inc: $60k → 14%Of Color Inc: $89k → 14%INNER VOICE INC: $53k → 14%Universal Family Connection: $54k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $18k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $6k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $5k → 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.
$21M · 22 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
6

Total granted

$21M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+31%

Still filing today

95%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • RS
    Renaissance Social Services Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +185%
  • DP
    DEBORAH'S PLACE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +33%
  • UP
    UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NL
    NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue -40%
  • FF
    FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +31%
  • AC
    ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +534%
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
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
3
Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources Inc

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…

Health
4
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
5
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
6
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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7
Chicago Metropolitan Housing Dev Corp

Cmhdcs mission is to retain and develop properties with both affordable and market rate housing in the chicago metropolitan area . cmhdc targets areas vulnerable to affordable housing shortages.

Housing & Shelter
8
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

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.

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9
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
10
Interfaith Residence D/B/a Doorways

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…

Health
11
Law Center for Better Housing

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.

Crime & Legal
12
South Side Office of Concern

Servicing the poor, homeless, amd mentally disabled

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing Forward to End Homelessness; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance Social Services Inc: $2,389,284 · Human ServicesRenaissance Social Services IncTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $1,922,117 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRYTHRESHOLDS INC: $1,512,724 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLDS INCThe Inner Voice Inc: $489,193 · Human ServicesThe Inner Voice IncOf Color Inc: $336,341 · Human Services+4 more: $422,510 · Human Services+4 moreDEBORAH'S PLACE: $2,258,562 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACENORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $1,098,940 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE S…LA CASA NORTE: $1,084,258 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTETHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $757,216 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INCHOUSING FORWARD: $695,047 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARDWESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY: $438,444 · Housing & ShelterWESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITYSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $277,832 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $76,111 · Housing & ShelterHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $1,721,535 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLI…CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $690,778 · HealthCHICAGO HOUSE …Celesterling Foundation: $212,654 · HealthCelesterling F…UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC: $1,418,395 · OtherUNITY PARENTI…Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $1,153,768 · OtherAlexian Broth…+1 more: $9,350 · OtherChristian Community Health Center: $942,758 · PhilanthropyPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $784,299 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationWholistic Alliance: $413,617 · Public BenefitNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $80,269 · Employment
Human Services$7,072,169Housing & Shelter$6,686,410Health$2,624,967Other$2,581,513Philanthropy$942,758Education$786,299Public Benefit$413,617Employment$80,269

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc: $2,389,284 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $2,258,562 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $1,922,117 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $1,721,535 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHRESHOLDS INC: $1,512,724 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC: $1,418,395 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $1,153,768 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $1,098,940 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $1,084,258 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetChristian Community Health Center: $942,758 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $784,299 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $757,216 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $695,047 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $690,778 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetThe Inner Voice Inc: $489,193 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetWESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY: $438,444 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWholistic Alliance: $413,617 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOf Color Inc: $336,341 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $277,832 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCelesterling Foundation: $212,654 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $177,814 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $172,071 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $80,269 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $60,061 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversal Family Connection Inc: $53,925 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $18,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $13,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $9,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

All Chicago Making Ho…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…AIDS Foundation of Ch…The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Cuore e Mani Foundati…George M Eisenberg Fo…Circle of Service Fou…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…The Pierce Family Cha…Visiting Nurse Associ…
All Chicago Making Homelessness HistoryIL45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Center for Housing and Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Housing and Health. 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Center for Housing and Health through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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