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BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC
BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,414,429 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,191,646). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 151
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc does
Mission
Breakthrough is a faith-based, non-profit organization that partners with people to build connections, develop skills, and open doors of opportunity. (continued on schedule o)with a hyperlocal focus in garfield park, breakthrough provides a myriad of services focused on a profoundly simple formula: people first. Breakthrough envisions a safe, stable, engaged garfield park where success is the norm and everyone thrives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing, wellness, and economic development breakthrough believes in a thriving garfield park and provides programs that focus on housing, health and wellness, and economic development. These initiatives include: - housing support for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness. This includes emergency drop-in spaces that meet critical basic needs, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. Participants receive wraparound services and case management support. - a choice model food pantry that functions like a free grocery store and also connects people to community healthcare and food assistance programs. (continued on schedule o)- behavioral health resources for children and adults. This includes on-site therapy, medical care, and substance use treatment options. - a spectrum of economic development and employment services, job placement, job retention support, income support, financial coaching, and homeownership education and pathways.
$4,372,764 spentof which $1,518,626 as grants$80,879 earned by the program35% of program spendingViolence prevention breakthrough provides an integrated violence prevention program in east garfield park. Direct interventions include street-level response to violence, case management, services for individuals re-entering the community, and public events that promote alternatives to violence.
$3,880,064 spentof which $1,415,254 as grants31% of program spendingEducation and youth development breakthrough seeks to see east garfield park become a place where success becomes the norm and families prosper. Breakthrough's core education and youth development programs include early childhood education, after school academic enrichment, high school and post-secondary programs, and a variety of high-quality art, technology, and sports clubs that focus on skill-building and career exploration.
$3,811,534 spentof which $217,258 as grants$100,059 earned by the program31% of program spendingVolunteer engagement to carry out its work, breakthrough is supported by thousands of volunteers who engage across each program area in a variety of ways. Volunteers are responsible for supplementing the efforts of staff and their work can include, but is not limited to, providing meals, acting as mentors, tutors, and coaches, supporting the food pantry, serving on a board, and providing job coaching.
$423,932 spentof which $750 as grants$2,334 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,488,294.
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 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $9.7M (−52%).
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 21% · 2018 15% · 2019 18% · 2020 18% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 39% · 2024 52% · 2025 38%. 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
Yolanda Fields
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.5M.
25 of 151 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $92k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Breakthrough Holdings Inc Nfp). These are real filings, and they are not money BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 151 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
BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 17% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
59% of BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC'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 $9.3M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.4M
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 BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Breakthrough Holdings Inc Nfp · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC?
- BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,414,429 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,191,646). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 151 organizations giving $22,414,429 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,191,646 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC 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 151 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