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Who funds housing in Illinois

Housing funding in Illinois is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Center for Housing and Health leads, and the money reaches 697 groups.

$862M
granted
697
organizations
68%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of housing in Illinois

The funders giving the most to housing organizations in Illinois, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Chicago Community Trust$112M2AIDS Foundation of Chicago$70M3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$45M4All Chicago Making Homelessness History$27M5Center for Housing and Health$18M6Habitat for Humanity International Inc$17M7Jpmorgan Chase Foundation$17M8Arie and Ida Crown Memorial$16M9United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$16M10National Philanthropic Trust$13M

Housing organizations in Illinois that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

687 other housing organizations$572M
Center for Housing and Health$82MThe Resurrection Project$38M

How to find housing funders in Illinois

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Illinois

    The funders giving the most to housing in Illinois are The Chicago Community Trust, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    32% of housing money in Illinois comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Illinois.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Illinois?
Start with the funders already giving to housing in Illinois, currently The Chicago Community Trust, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Illinois?
The Chicago Community Trust gives the most to housing organizations in Illinois, $112M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Illinois?
$862M reached 697 housing organizations in Illinois, from 2,272 funders. 68% came from funders also based in Illinois.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.