· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
Provide affordable housing to the disadvantaged
Development of affordable housing
Most construction work is performed by volunteers
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.
Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Build and repair housing for needy families
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.
Provide decent housing to needy families at an affordable amount. the homes are sold based on monthly, interest-free payments over 30 years.
To provide affordable housing for the needy.
Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity of kosciusko county brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To build and rehabilitate houses which are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans
How this is measured
9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity James Harris Treasurer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity James Harris Treasurer. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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