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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

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$191k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$4.9MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$386kReligion$214kEmployment$133kEnvironment$35kScience & Tech$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $1,900,657, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,181,386 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $280,729 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $578k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
$43,573
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Embarras River Basin Agency$191,315
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago$103,298
South Suburban Housing Center$84,757
La Casa de Esperanza$80,203
HOPE of Evansville$71,128
Far South Community Development Corporation$70,312
Habitat for Humanity - Champaign$68,219
HOME DuPage$66,458
Restoration America Inc$64,555
HOPE Fair Housing Center INC$63,571
Individual grant recipient$63,571
South Suburban Housing Center$63,571
Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights$63,571
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance$63,571
Open Communities$63,571
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Love Columbia: $34k → 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%Love Columbia: $18k → 17%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 Corporation: $44k → 9%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corp: $39k → 9%Bridging Communities: $50k → 21%Bridging Communities: $22k → 21%CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation: $28k → 9%Bridging Communities: $19k → 21%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $21k → 14%Bridging Communities: $5k → 21%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $16k → 14%Erie Neighborhood House: $36k → 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%Respond Now Inc: $7k → 14%Bethel New Life: $24k → 14%Total Resources Community Development Organization: $6k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 59 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
41

Total granted

$9.1M
$691k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+53%

Still filing today

49%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalReligionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $588k · revenue +61%
  • SS
    SOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $514k · revenue +20%
  • AL
    Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
    7× · 2019–2025 · $483k · 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
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
Community Housing Council
Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
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
6
Opport-Unity

We provide low income housing

Human Services
7
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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8
Westside Neighborhood Developm

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

Community Improvement
9
United Community Housing Coalition

To help low-income residents in detroit and wayne county stay in their homes and strengthen their communities, through representation, support, and ownership. we believe that having a place to live is a basic human right, and are…

Housing & Shelter
10
Fair Housing Resource Center Inc

The fair housing resource enter inc is a non-profit organization created to help promote equal housing opportunities for all persons, and to promote safe, decent and affordable housing in lake county through education and the involvement…

Human Services
11
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
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Community Building Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
46/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER: $514,380 · OtherSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTERAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $482,833 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan ChicagoHOME DuPage: $445,906 · OtherHOME DuPageRESTORATION AMERICA INC: $400,160 · OtherRESTORATION AMERICA INCLake County Housing Authority: $322,453 · OtherLake County Housing AuthorityNorthside Community Development Corporation: $216,715 · OtherJustine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corp: $209,517 · Other+54 more: $2,788,271 · Other+54 moreHOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC: $409,191 · Housing & ShelterHOPE OF EVANSVILLE IN…Center for Changing Lives: $407,394 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Changing L…OPEN COMMUNITIES: $361,647 · Housing & ShelterOPEN COMMUNITIESTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $265,045 · Housing & ShelterTHE HOUSING PARTNERSH…GENESIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,881 · Housing & ShelterOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC: $75,318 · Housing & Shelter+14 more: $380,766 · Housing & Shelter+14 moreEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $588,133 · Community ImprovementEMBARRAS RIVER…COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY: $251,183 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY SERV…FAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $197,030 · Community ImprovementFAR SOUTH COMM…COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC: $133,170 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY AND …COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF DECATUR INC: $123,070 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INVE…+2 more: $50,204 · Community ImprovementCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $468,069 · Human ServicesCEFS ECONOMI…RESPOND NOW: $259,449 · Human ServicesRESPOND NOWBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $96,747 · Human ServicesBRIDGING COM…Total Resource Community Dev Organ: $57,585 · Human ServicesLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $52,569 · Human Services+12 more: $192,353 · Human Services+12 moreMETEC: $166,660 · ReligionTHE JOURNEY FORWARD: $133,182 · EmploymentChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc: $63,571 · Crime & LegalLaw Center for Better Housing: $26,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,380,235Housing & Shelter$1,975,242Community Improvement$1,342,790Human Services$1,126,772Religion$166,660Employment$133,182Crime & Legal$89,571

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $588,133 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER: $514,380 over 9y, 12% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $482,833 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $468,069 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC: $409,191 over 9y, 15% of budgetCenter for Changing Lives: $407,394 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetRESTORATION AMERICA INC: $400,160 over 8y, 51% of budgetOPEN COMMUNITIES: $361,647 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $265,045 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetRESPOND NOW: $259,449 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY: $251,183 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetFAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $197,030 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMETEC: $166,660 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE JOURNEY FORWARD: $133,182 over 3y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC: $133,170 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF DECATUR INC: $123,070 over 5y, 15% of budgetLATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN: $117,711 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC: $116,149 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $96,747 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $75,850 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC: $75,318 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,018 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGood Neighbor Foundation: $70,552 over 2y, 19% of budgetHousing Opportunities Inc: $70,063 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC: $63,571 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc: $63,571 over 1y, 1.7% 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 budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $52,569 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetADVANTAGE HOUSING INC: $43,251 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMARSHALL HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40,204 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $37,499 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $36,178 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetSouth Side Office of Concern: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Changing Lives ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPOND NOW ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds METEC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOURNEY FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION OF DECATUR INC ↗
  • Who funds LATIN UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSN ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds OAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Good Neighbor Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Housing Opportunities 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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Housing Action Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Housing Action Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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