· Public charity
Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity James Harris Treasurer
The organization raises funds for low cost housing and distributes them to habitat for humanity affiliates to aid in home construction.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $2,675,119 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,172,133 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $497,014 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MCHENRY COUNTY | $647,352 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY | $614,688 |
| WILL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $517,170 |
| DUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $465,873 |
| LAKE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $268,826 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO | $112,154 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FOX VALLEY | $49,056 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +84% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DHDUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +60%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +84%
- WCWILL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +242%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
Provide affordable housing to the disadvantaged
Development of affordable housing
Most construction work is performed by volunteers
Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
Helping families thrive through affordable homeownership.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To provide affordable housing for the needy.
To build and rehabilitate houses which are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans
Chemung county habitat is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access…
Provide decent housing to needy families at an affordable amount. the homes are sold based on monthly, interest-free payments over 30 years.
To put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Restore of Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 DUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WILL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MCHENRY COU ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RESTORE OF FOX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity James Harris Treasurer 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.