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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
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 2025.

Housing & Shelter$3.8MCommunity Improvement$109kPhilanthropy$53kHuman Services$37kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $1,405,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,488,308 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $83,308 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

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $355k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$1,050,000
Matthew House$22,667
CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES$21,667
Good News Partners$21,667
Housing Forward$21,663
Breakthrough Urban Ministries$20,000
SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER ORGANIZING$20,000
Franciscan Outreach$20,000
JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAI$20,000
ONE NORTHSIDE$20,000
COMMUNITIES UNITED$20,000
Margarets Village$19,167
Olive Branch Mission$19,167
INNER VOICE$18,167
Unity Parenting & Counseling$16,667
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $405k) 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%Casa Central Social Services: $30k → 14%Casa Central Social Services: $25k → 14%Casa Central Social Services: $23k → 14%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES: $22k → 14%Casa Central Social Services: $20k → 14%Casa Central Social Services: $20k → 14%Casa Central Social Services: $20k → 14%Casa Central Social Services: $20k → 14%Center on Halsted: $10k → 14%INNER VOICE: $18k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $24k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $22k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $20k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $20k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $17k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $10k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $10k → 14%The Inner Voice Inc: $10k → 14%The Night Ministry Open Door: $10k → 14%Madonna House and Good Shepar: $10k → 14%Covenant House: $10k → 14%You Can Make It: $8k → 14%Lyte Collective: $10k → 14%You Can Make It: $8k → 14%Ignite: $10k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 26 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$2.8M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+34%

Still filing today

85%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +206%
  • BU
    BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +207%
  • CC
    CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • I
    IGNITEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • StandUp for Kids
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -6%
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
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

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

Health
3
Renaissance Social Services Inc

Renaissance Social Services (RSSI) is a unique organization that connects those in need with housing that is safe, quality and affordable. After helping clients attain housing RSSI provides them with comprehensive, flexible, client focused…

Human Services
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
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
6
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
7
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
8
South Side Office of Concern

Servicing the poor, homeless, amd mentally disabled

Human Services
9
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
10
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
11
Rod's House

Rod's house builds authentic connections with young people, supports them in feeling respected and secure in who they are, empowers them to reach their full potential, and positively connects them to the community. rod's house envisions an…

Housing & Shelter
12
Covenant House Chicago
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Matthew House Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,050,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESSHOUSING FORWARD: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARDGOOD NEWS PARTNERS: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD NEWS PARTNERSMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $163,500 · Housing & ShelterMATTHEW HOUSE INCNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES+4 more: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $190,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MIN…UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC: $155,000 · OtherUNITY PARENTING & COUN…FRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $130,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN OUTREACHSalvation Army Metropolitan Chicago: $77,500 · OtherSalvation Army Metropo…McDermott Center: $75,000 · OtherMcDermott CenterOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside: $64,500 · OtherOrganizing Neighborhoo…San Jose Obrero Mission: $40,000 · Other+5 more: $60,000 · Other+5 moreOlive Branch Mission: $157,500 · ReligionOlive Branch…St Leonard's Ministries: $145,000 · ReligionSt Leonard's…MARGARETS VILLAGE: $140,000 · ReligionMARGARETS VI…CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $180,000 · Human ServicesCASA CENTRA…The Inner Voice Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesThe Inner V…YOU CAN MAKE IT: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $60,000 · Human Services+6 moreCornerstone Community Outreach: $140,000 · Community ImprovementJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $64,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $45,000 · Community ImprovementSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $40,000 · Community ImprovementChristian Community Health Center: $120,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Chicago: $65,000 · EducationPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $55,000 · Education
Housing & Shelter$1,818,500Other$792,000Religion$442,500Human Services$405,000Community Improvement$289,500Philanthropy$120,000Education$120,000

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 budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,050,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $200,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $190,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $180,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD NEWS PARTNERS: $175,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $163,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetOlive Branch Mission: $157,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC: $155,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $155,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Inner Voice Inc: $150,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $145,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCornerstone Community Outreach: $140,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMARGARETS VILLAGE: $140,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $130,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Community Health Center: $120,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMcDermott Center: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside: $64,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $64,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jose Obrero Mission: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetYOU CAN MAKE IT: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIGNITE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouse of the Good Shepherd: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Olive Branch Mission ↗
  • Who funds UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds The Inner Voice Inc ↗
  • Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone Community Outreach ↗
  • Who funds MARGARETS VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds McDermott Center ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
  • Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds San Jose Obrero Mission ↗
  • Who funds Southside Together Organizing For Power ↗
  • Who funds YOU CAN MAKE IT ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
  • Who funds House of the Good Shepherd ↗
  • Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
  • Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE LYTE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds SINGLE ROOM HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗

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…Greater Chicago Food …The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Polk Bros Foundation …Cuore e Mani Foundati…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…WP & HB White Foundat…Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…The a Montgomery Ward…
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 · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Cuore e Mani Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward 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 Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    12report 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 40 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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