Illinois · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY
ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,518,036 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,340,450). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County does
Mission
The mission of the alliance to end homelessness is to strive for the elimination of homelessness in suburban cook county through the coordination and maximization of available resources to assist homeless individuals and families. The alliance serves as a convener for the collaborative, community-based endeavors of homeless service providers, affordable housing developers, local governments, foundations, and the private sector.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coordinated entry - is a community-wide system of nonprofit homeless service providers that connect people experiencing homelessness and housing instability with the resources they need. This program includes subrecipient grants to partner agencies.
$2,017,357 spentof which $1,469,302 as grants$3,235 earned by the program44% of program spendingContinuum of care planning - involves creating and implementing a community wide plan to prevent and end homelessness and the strategic use and equitable distribution of federal funding and leveraging new resources to end homelessness across the region. This also includes coordinating an annual funding competition for approximately $24 million in hud continuum of care program funding. This funding supports 45 housing programs for people experiencing homelessness across suburban cook county.
$1,903,565 spentof which $779,817 as grants41% of program spendingData collection - the homeless management information system (hmis) is a web-based computerized data collection system designed to capture client level information on the characteristics and service needs of people experiencing homelessness. This data informs the region about the number of persons experiencing homelessness, factors and patterns of housing instability, and the efficacy of the homeless response system. With this, the continuum of care (coc) can make data-driven decisions and develop strategies for preventing and ending homelessness.
$687,278 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,608,200.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $5.2M (+243%).
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 84% · 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 79% · 2021 88% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 50% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jennifer C Hill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $184k → $273k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
83% of ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY'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 $957k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY?
- ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,518,036 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,340,450). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $5,518,036 in grants to ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,340,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY 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.
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 23 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