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Housing Action Illinois

To increase and preserve the supply of decent, affordable and accessible housing in Illinois for low-income and moderate-income households

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$4.9MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$386kReligion$214kEmployment$133kEnvironment$35kScience & Tech$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $1,324,275 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,377,825 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,550 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $820k
$37,799
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lake County Housing Authority$87,271
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago$79,970
HOME DuPage$79,167
CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation$78,746
Open Communities$75,309
Northside Community Development Corporation$73,657
Center for Changing Lives$71,767
Restoration America Inc$65,042
Embarras River Basin Agency$54,324
Far South Community Development Corporation$53,444
South Suburban Housing Center$51,290
CEDA Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County Inc$50,196
The Journey Forward$47,800
HOPE of Evansville$44,387
The Housing Partnership Inc$42,481
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $972k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Love Columbia: $18k → 17%Lazarus House: $10k → 8%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corp: $117k → 9%Madison County Urban League: $10k → 12%Phoenix CDSSouth Side Office of Concern: $15k → 14%Freeport Area Church Cooperative: $10k → 14%Project Now: $10k → 15%Shawnee Development Council: $10k → 15%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation: $79k → 9%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corp: $61k → 9%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corp: $55k → 9%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation: $45k → 9%Morningstar Mission Ministries: $10k → 7%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corp: $39k → 9%Bridging Communities: $50k → 21%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $21k → 14%Bridging Communities: $22k → 21%Bridging Communities: $19k → 21%Bridging Communities: $5k → 21%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $16k → 14%Respond Now: $47k → 14%Respond Now: $43k → 14%Respond Now: $43k → 14%Respond Now: $32k → 14%Respond Now: $32k → 14%Respond Now Inc: $27k → 14%Respond Now Inc: $27k → 14%Total Resources Community Development Organization: $30k → 14%Total Resources Community Development Organization: $22k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $10k → 14%Bethel New Life: $24k → 14%JourneysThe Road Home: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.5M · 55 repeat orgs$791k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
41

Total granted

$7.5M
$691k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+53%

Still filing today

47%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • ER
    EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $397k · revenue +61%
  • CE
    CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $396k · revenue +20%
  • AL
    Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
    6× · 2019–2024 · $380k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • DH
    DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue -44%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $38k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $33k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Open Door Counseling Center

Open Door Counseling Center is a HUD Certified Comprehensive Housing Counseling Agency to educate and assist underserved households to obtain and retain affordable permanent housing; provide immediate basic human needs for community…

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2
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc

Community based housing program designed to stabilize neighborhoods mainly through loans to home owners unable to obtain alternative financing and construction and rehabilitation of housing, related services include technical assistance,…

Housing & Shelter
3
Central Illinois Services

To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…

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4
Community Housing Council
Housing & Shelter
5
Chicago Metropolitan Housing Dev Corp

Cmhdcs mission is to retain and develop properties with both affordable and market rate housing in the chicago metropolitan area . cmhdc targets areas vulnerable to affordable housing shortages.

Housing & Shelter
6
Hcp of Illinois Inc

To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.

Housing & Shelter
7
Opport-Unity

We provide low income housing

Human Services
8
Community Enterprises Corporation Inc

To provide services to organizations that are committed to provide economic opportunities and safe, decent, affordable and permanent supportive housing to low income persons with special needs.

Arts & Culture
9
Community Supportive Living Systems

To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.

Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc

Committed to improving the quality of life for chicago's low-income elderly, housing opportunities and maintenance for the elderly (h.o.m.e.) helps seniors remain independent and part of their community by offering opportunities for…

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11
Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc

HOUSING COUNSELING SERVICES - Our Housing Counseling Program supports delivery of a wide variety of housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, and low-to moderate-income renters. The primary objectives of the program are to…

Human Services
12
Westside Neighborhood Developm

Community development via home ownership and home repair programs. financial literacy education

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Community Building Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ywca Metropolitan Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Construc…Affordable Housing Developm…Christian Missionary Organi…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Social Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr22%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr14%51%35–55yr22%20%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
4/62
the rest of the field
12%
8,887/72,297

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $379,535 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan ChicagoHOME DuPage — $379,448 · OtherHOME DuPageSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER — $366,052 · OtherSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTERRESTORATION AMERICA INC — $335,605 · OtherRESTORATION AMERICA INCLake County Housing Authority — $276,507 · OtherLake County Housing AuthorityJustine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corp — $182,780 · OtherNorthside Community Development Corporation — $156,065 · Other+49 more — $2,300,888 · Other+49 moreCenter for Changing Lives — $365,330 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Changing Li…HOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC — $338,063 · Housing & ShelterHOPE OF EVANSVILLE INCOPEN COMMUNITIES — $251,767 · Housing & ShelterOPEN COMMUNITIESTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $243,491 · Housing & ShelterTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHI…GENESIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,881 · Housing & ShelterOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC — $75,318 · Housing & ShelterDuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc — $61,013 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — $57,356 · Housing & Shelter+11 more — $198,826 · Housing & Shelter+11 moreEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC — $396,818 · Community ImprovementEMBARRAS RIVE…COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY — $251,183 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY SER…FAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $126,718 · Community ImprovementFAR SOUTH COM…COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC — $95,678 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY AND…COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF DECATUR INC — $92,050 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INV…+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION — $396,266 · Human ServicesCEFS ECONOMIC…RESPOND NOW — $252,283 · Human ServicesRESPOND NOWBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC — $96,747 · Human ServicesBRIDGING COMM…Total Resource Community Dev Organ — $51,866 · Human ServicesTotal Resourc…YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $37,499 · Human Services+11 more — $136,920 · Human Services+11 moreMETEC — $166,660 · ReligionTHE JOURNEY FORWARD — $133,182 · EmploymentLaw Center for Better Housing — $26,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,376,880Housing & Shelter$1,667,045Community Improvement$972,447Human Services$971,581Religion$166,660Employment$133,182Crime & Legal$26,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC — $396,818 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION — $396,266 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $379,535 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER — $366,052 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetCenter for Changing Lives — $365,330 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetHOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC — $338,063 over 8y, 15% of budgetRESTORATION AMERICA INC — $335,605 over 7y, 35% of budgetRESPOND NOW — $252,283 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetOPEN COMMUNITIES — $251,767 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY — $251,183 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $243,491 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetMETEC — $166,660 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE JOURNEY FORWARD — $133,182 over 3y, 20% of budgetFAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $126,718 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN — $117,711 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC — $96,747 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC — $95,678 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF DECATUR INC — $92,050 over 4y, 15% of budgetOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC — $75,318 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP — $64,620 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetDuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc — $61,013 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN COMMUNITY BUILDING INC — $60,397 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — $57,356 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $49,393 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHousing Opportunities Inc — $46,792 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetADVANTAGE HOUSING INC — $43,251 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $37,499 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC — $35,946 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION — $34,106 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLaw Center for Better Housing — $26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALL FOR HELP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOURAGE CONNECTION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCARBONDALE WARMING CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBETHEL NEW LIFE INC — $23,676 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGood Neighbor Foundation — $19,261 over 1y, 19% of budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia — $18,244 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Side Office of Concern — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPADS OF ELGIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREEPORT AREA CHURCH COOPERATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Center for Changing Lives ↗
  • Who funds HOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPOND NOW ↗
  • Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds METEC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOURNEY FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds FAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds LATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF DECATUR INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds OAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY BUILDING 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.

United Way of Metropo…All Chicago Making Ho…The Chicago Community…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Greater Green Bay Com…Circle of Service Fou…Cuore e Mani Foundati…Illinois Public Healt…Fifth Third Chicagola…Alliance to End Homel…Illinois Association …Midland States Bank F…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Housing Action Illinois 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your 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
    25report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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