Illinois · Public charity
Housing Forward
HOUSING FORWARD's mission is to transition people from housing crisis to housing stability.
- $7.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $922k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $130,883
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $388,425
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Housing Forward funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 6 | $922k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $686k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $981k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $971k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beds Plus Inc | $2,476,619 | 8 | 18% |
| South Suburban Pads | $1,603,189 | 8 | 9% |
| New Moms Inc | $505,643 | 4 | 2% |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights | $493,019 | 7 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $485,057 | 4 | 0% |
| The Thresholds | $432,040 | 7 | 0% |
| Northwest Compass Inc | $317,928 | 4 | 8% |
| Respond Now | $274,042 | 4 | 5% |
| Together We Cope | $239,317 | 4 | 2% |
| African American Christian Foundation | $215,775 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beds Plus Inc | $2,476,619 | 8 | 18% |
| South Suburban Pads | $1,603,189 | 8 | 9% |
| New Moms Inc | $505,643 | 4 | 2% |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights | $493,019 | 7 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $485,057 | 4 | 0% |
| The Thresholds | $432,040 | 7 | 0% |
| Northwest Compass Inc | $317,928 | 4 | 8% |
| Respond Now | $274,042 | 4 | 5% |
| Together We Cope | $239,317 | 4 | 2% |
| African American Christian Foundation | $215,775 | 4 | 4% |
| Cornerstone Community Development Corporation Nfp | $210,939 | 4 | 9% |
| Live 4 Lali Inc | $193,786 | 2 | 8% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $187,021 | 4 | 1% |
| Thrive Counseling Center | $132,097 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Outreach Services Inc | $112,432 | 2 | 1% |
| Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County | $60,037 | 1 | 2% |
| Anew Building Beyond Violence and Abuse | $38,793 | 1 | 2% |
| YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore | $36,212 | 1 | 0% |
| Sarah's Inn | $28,931 | 1 | 1% |
| Wings Program Inc | $28,472 | 1 | n/a |
| Loyola University Medical Center | $9,900 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Housing Forward supplied at peak.
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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 · Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · AbbVie Foundation · Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation · Housing Action Illinois
How this is measured
About Housing Forward
- How much does Housing Forward give?
- Housing Forward reported 6 itemized grants totaling $922,188, out of $7,721,678 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Housing Forward fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (54%), Human Services (24%), Health (10%).
- Who are Housing Forward's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Beds Plus Inc ($2.5M), South Suburban Pads ($1.6M), New Moms Inc ($506k).
- Does Housing Forward fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Housing Forward?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Housing Forward based?
- Housing Forward is based in IL.
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