Illinois · Public charity
Housing Action Illinois
To increase and preserve the supply of decent, affordable and accessible housing in Illinois for low-income and moderate-income households
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $43,573
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $191,315
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Housing Action Illinois funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $926k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $1.4M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $1.1M | 66% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $136k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embarras River Basin Agency Inc | $588,133 | 8 | 1% |
| South Suburban Housing Center | $514,380 | 9 | 12% |
| Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago | $482,833 | 7 | 1% |
| Cefs Economic Opportunity Corporation | $468,069 | 7 | 0% |
| Hope of Evansville Inc | $409,191 | 9 | 15% |
| Center for Changing Lives | $407,394 | 9 | 7% |
| Restoration America Inc | $400,160 | 8 | 51% |
| Open Communities | $361,647 | 7 | 9% |
| The Housing Partnership Inc | $265,045 | 7 | 7% |
| Respond Now | $259,449 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 67 grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Housing Action Illinois supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · The Chicago Community Trust · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Cuore e Mani Foundation · Illinois Public Health Institute · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County · Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies · Midland States Bank Foundation
How this is measured
About Housing Action Illinois
- How much does Housing Action Illinois give?
- Housing Action Illinois reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,900,657, out of $2,181,386 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Housing Action Illinois fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (58%), Community Improvement (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Housing Action Illinois's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Embarras River Basin Agency Inc ($588k), South Suburban Housing Center ($514k), Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ($483k).
- Does Housing Action Illinois fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Housing Action Illinois?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, All Chicago Making Homelessness History, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Housing Action Illinois based?
- Housing Action Illinois is based in IL.
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