Illinois · Nonprofit
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,441,904 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,489,191). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago does
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and benevolent purposes to assist disabled persons, to educate the public about the needs and abilities of disabled persons and to generally provide services and programs to and for disabled persons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Long-term care team - assists people interested in moving out of nursing homes. The team also assists people with disabilities to find affordable, accessible, and integrated housing.
$3,170,309 spent35% of program spendingCommunity support team - the team helps people obtain support (such as assistive technology) and develop the skills (such as financial literacy) they need to live independently.
$930,023 spent10% of program spendingCommunity organizing and policy team - conducts activities to engage people with disabilities in the work that the agency does around issues important to people with disabilities in chicago, including housing, employment, education, healthcare, and transportation. The team also conducts policy analysis in order to understand and impact legislation, laws and policies that impact people with disabilities in chicago. The agency's policy analysis work focuses on housing, education, healthcare, employment and community integration.
$1,987,994 spent22% of program spendingCivil rights team - uses public education, negotiation, and litigation to address disability-based discrimination and enforces the civil rights of people by handling cases that will have the greatest impact on the broader disability community; and conducts a fair housing initiative that enforces the fair housing act for people with disabilities. Expenses $1,019,975. Including grants of $0. Revenue $0. Art team - in 2007, the agency developed an arts & culture initiative in response to a newly emerging disability culture. The initiative promotes disability art, culture, and history through a permanent collection of art by professional artists with disabilities, showcasing the chicago disability history exhibit at the agency's headquarters, hosting performing arts events that integrate people with disabilities and educational sessions on topics related to disability art, culture, and history. Expenses $185,659. Including grants of $0. Revenue $0. Youth institute - in 2015, the agency developed a youth institute program. The program is an initiative that strengthens and expands the agency's youth-specific programming that comes at a crucial point in an individual's path toward…
$2,964,048 spent33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,052,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $26M to $35M (+34%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 33% · 2019 49% · 2020 43% · 2021 42% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% · 2024 28% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Karen Tamley
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $10M.
15 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 34% · 2021 16% · 2022 26% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago?
- Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,441,904 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,489,191). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $26,441,904 in grants to Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,489,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 114 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing