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The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.

$7.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$681kCrime & Legal$393kHealth$246kCivil Rights$130kScience & Tech$102kCommunity Improvement$82kReligion$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $655,801, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,362,922 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,707,121 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

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $456k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RTI INTERNATIONAL$102,455
APNA GHAR INC$96,461
LIFT INC$75,000
CAWC$71,286
SARAHS INN$58,346
INSTITUTE FOR NON-VIOLENCE CH$52,253
AND RISE WOMAN INC$20,000
ERNESTINES DAUGHTER$20,000
UN NUEVO DESPERTAR$20,000
EMPOWERING WOMEN NFP$20,000
TO WALK IN MY SHOES$20,000
INELLAS RESTORATION CENTER$20,000
AMAN HUMAN SERVICES$20,000
WOMENS JUSTICE INSTITUTE$20,000
LOVE AND PROTECT WISDOM$20,000
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 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DVSA COMMUNITIES: $20k → 8%ERNESTINES DAUGHTER: $30k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $42k → 7%ERNESTINES DAUGHTER: $20k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 7%Ernestines Daughter: $10k → 14%THE VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $30k → 14%Telpochcalli Community Educat: $16k → 14%The Voices and Faces Project: $10k → 14%SARAHS INN: $69k → 14%Center for Advancing Domestic: $67k → 14%SARAHS INN: $58k → 14%Sarahs Inn: $25k → 14%LOVE AND PROTECT WISDOM: $20k → 14%Between Friends: $44k → 14%Between Friends: $13k → 14%INELLAS RESTORATION CENTER: $20k → 14%INELLAS RESTORATION CENTER: $20k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE: $86k → 14%Family Rescue: $31k → 14%Center on Halsted: $42k → 14%Burst Into Books: $13k → 14%CAWC: $77k → 14%CAWC: $71k → 14%CAWC: $38k → 14%Connections for Abused Women and their Children: $8k → 14%Sarah's Inn: $14k → 14%Mujeres Latinas en Accion: $38k → 14%Mujeres Latinas en Accion: $18k → 14%KANWIN: $35k → 14%Crisis Center for South Subur: $41k → 14%Arab American Family Services Inc: $6k → 14%AND RISE WOMAN INC: $20k → 14%EMPOWERING WOMEN NFP: $20k → 14%SHALVA: $15k → 14%AMAN HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 24 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
30

Total granted

$2.3M
$938k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+16%

Still filing today

92%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • WP
    WINGS PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $389k · revenue +122%
  • AG
    APNA GHAR INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $213k · revenue +30%
  • CF
    CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN
    4× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services DuPage
    one grant, 2024 · $86k · revenue +8%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE
    one grant, 2023 · $67k · revenue +7%
  • BP
    BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue +2%
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
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
2
Community Beyond Violence

CBV heals the trauma of sexual assault and domestic violence by providing crisis intervention, safety, advocacy, and education to survivors and our community.

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3
Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center Inc

To end domestic violence in the capital area through serving victims of domestic violence, educating the public about domestic violence, and working to eliminate economic, social and cultural conditions and attitudes that contribute to…

Human Services
4
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
5
Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Center Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate support, resources, and advocacy for victims of violent crime. we are dedicated to empowering children, teens and adults in their journey to healing by offering a safe place, emotional care, and the…

Human Services
6
Domestic Abusesexual Assault Services Inc

To provide free, confidential, and empowering services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking while raising awareness and prevention efforts throughout our communities.

Human Services
7
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County

The mission of domestic violence and sexual assault services is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, and to lead the community toward ending these abuses of power.

Health
8
Lake County Crisis Center

A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.

—
9
Kankakee County Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc

Providing assistance to victims of domestic violence

Human Services
10
Domestic Violence Project

The mission of SafeHouse Center is to empower survivors of both sexual and intimate partner violence by providing advocacy, support, and promoting social change within our community.

Human Services
11
Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services
12
Eve - End Violent Encounters

To provide supportive services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Empowering Women Nfp. 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

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 65 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
39/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $195,138 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEI…SARAH'S INN: $166,252 · Human ServicesSARAH'S INNFAMILY RESCUE INC: $116,791 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESCUE INCMetropolitan Family Services: $76,817 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family ServicesCENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE: $67,476 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACEERNESTINES DAUGHTER NFP: $60,000 · Human ServicesBETWEEN FRIENDS: $57,418 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $56,300 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $56,081 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $41,689 · Human ServicesCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $41,480 · Human ServicesTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECT: $40,000 · Human ServicesInellas Restoration Cente: $40,000 · Human Services+9 more: $179,167 · Human Services+9 moreNEOPOLITAN LIGHTHOUSE: $111,503 · OtherNEOPOLITAN LIGHTHOUSEANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $105,100 · OtherANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AN…YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $89,233 · OtherYWCA EvanstonNorth ShoreMetropolitan Family Services DuPage: $85,827 · OtherMetropolitan Family Services DuP…GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $63,739 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICE…ASCEND JUSTICE: $59,054 · OtherASCEND JUSTICEWOMEN FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $40,000 · OtherChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation: $59,601 · OtherChicago Alliance Against Sexual …BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $64,866 · OtherBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNC…+18 more: $361,973 · Other+18 moreWINGS PROGRAM INC: $389,045 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INCAPNA GHAR INC: $212,707 · Housing & ShelterAPNA GHAR INCThe Resurrection Project: $69,961 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrection Pro…RESILIENCE: $143,827 · HealthBRIDGES TO A NEW DAY NFP: $45,000 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $24,311 · HealthHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC: $21,456 · HealthUN NUEVO DESPERTAR A NEW AWAKENING NFP: $20,000 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $9,300 · HealthLIFE-SPAN: $149,957 · Crime & LegalInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $52,253 · Crime & LegalTHE FREE ROOT OPERATION INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalLIFT INC: $75,000 · EmploymentHealing to Action: $40,000 · EmploymentResearch Triangle Institute: $102,455 · Science & Tech
Human Services$1,194,609Other$1,040,896Housing & Shelter$671,713Health$283,894Crime & Legal$222,210Employment$115,000Science & Tech$102,455

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $389,045 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAPNA GHAR INC: $212,707 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $195,138 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $166,252 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLIFE-SPAN: $149,957 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRESILIENCE: $143,827 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFAMILY RESCUE INC: $116,791 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNEOPOLITAN LIGHTHOUSE: $111,503 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $105,100 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $102,455 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $89,233 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services DuPage: $85,827 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $76,817 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $69,961 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE: $67,476 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $64,866 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $63,739 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetERNESTINES DAUGHTER NFP: $60,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation: $59,601 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASCEND JUSTICE: $59,054 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBETWEEN FRIENDS: $57,418 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $56,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $56,081 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $52,253 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGES TO A NEW DAY NFP: $45,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $41,689 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $41,480 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECT: $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHealing to Action: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetInellas Restoration Cente: $40,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetKAN-WIN: $35,286 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRO ROMERO: $27,854 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTASKFORCE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $27,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $24,311 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC: $21,456 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmmaus Ministries: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEMPOWERING WOMEN NFP: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTGI MOVEMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUN NUEVO DESPERTAR A NEW AWAKENING NFP: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAMAN HUMAN SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLOVE AND PROTECT WISDOM: $20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetParty Per Purpose: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND THE BALL NFP: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FREE ROOT OPERATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMIDDLE EASTERN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Chicago Foundation fo…United Way of Metropo…Illinois Coalition Ag…Michael Reese Health …Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Alphawood FoundationCircle of Service Fou…Field Foundation of I…Crossroads Fund IncVisiting Nurse Associ…
Chicago Foundation for WomenIL60.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chicago Foundation for Women · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence · Michael Reese Health Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Alphawood Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Crossroads Fund Inc · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna 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 The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    22report 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 65 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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