Illinois · Public charity
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights
To advance the human rights and respond to the human needs of endangered populations - Particularly the poor, isolated, and displaced - By providing comprehensive and respectful services and promoting permanent solutions leading to a more just global society.
- $7.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $478,097
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $884,155
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $3.7M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $7.2M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $5.9M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $6.4M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $8.0M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $6.9M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $3.4M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Human Care Services Inc | $9,490,622 | 7 | 3% |
| North Lawndale Employment Network | $9,100,923 | 7 | 33% |
| Centers for New Horizons Inc | $8,086,599 | 7 | 9% |
| Institute for Nonviolence Chicago | $5,627,621 | 7 | 16% |
| Ucan | $4,846,463 | 7 | 3% |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | $1,611,675 | 4 | 16% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $480,896 | 3 | n/a |
| Immigration Project Inc | $357,261 | 3 | 7% |
| Urban Growers Collective Inc | $237,542 | 2 | 5% |
| The Resurrection Project | $190,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Policylink · The Joyce Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights with peer funders
About Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights
- How much does Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights give?
- Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights reported 7 itemized grants totaling $3,669,168, out of $6,996,651 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Employment (34%), Crime & Legal (14%).
- Who are Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Heartland Human Care Services Inc ($9.5M), North Lawndale Employment Network ($9.1M), Centers for New Horizons Inc ($8.1M).
- Does Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights based?
- Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights is based in IL.
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