Illinois · Nonprofit
CARPENTER'S PLACE INC
CARPENTER'S PLACE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,067 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($335,443). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Carpenter's Place Inc does
Mission
Carpenter's place provides the tools necessary for rebuilding the lives of the homeless. Inspired by christ's compassion, we offer direction with accountability to people with broken lives, helping them find peace with god, themselves and their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Case management program: for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, 1,471 homeless men and women were in the carpenter's place case management program. The goal of the program is to identify, provide, and/or secure the services needed to rebuild the lives of the homeless adults so they can reach self-sufficiency. During this period, 38 obtained housing and 64 secured employment. To lead to this success, a sampling of services received include: 24 received mental health treatment/counseling/medication, and 68 secured an id card of drivers license.
$574,588 spentof which $102,378 as grants25% of program spendingHousing program: carpenter's place provides housing for 47 homeless adults. The target populations for this program include: 3 veterans, 8 chronically homeless adults, 4 women with no attendant children, 4 homeless adults with mental illness, and 48 men who obtained new employment, but had not yet become self-supporting, and 4 homeless families (8 women/men, 8 children). Each housing program has a manager that provides oversight and case management for participants.
$861,881 spentof which $217,303 as grants$63,338 earned by the program37% of program spendingDay shelter program: carpenter's place provides a day shelter where homeless men and women can access services and be safe from the dangers of the streets and inclement weather. For the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, an average of 106 individuals came to the day shelter daily totaling 666 unique visitors and 24,660 visits. In the same time, 31,179 meals were served and 2,303 showers were taken.
$861,881 spentof which $116,316 as grants37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,298,350.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $3.0M (+69%).
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 18% · 2018 19% · 2019 22% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% · 2024 18% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CARPENTER'S PLACE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $55k → $185k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 CARPENTER'S PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CARPENTER'S PLACE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 CARPENTER'S PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 30% · 2019 35% · 2020 35% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 41% — 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
78% of CARPENTER'S PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
64% of CARPENTER'S PLACE 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 $481k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $866k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CARPENTER'S PLACE INC's revenue grew 77% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 CARPENTER'S PLACE INC: 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 CARPENTER'S PLACE INC?
- CARPENTER'S PLACE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,067 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($335,443). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARPENTER'S PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,347,067 in grants to CARPENTER'S PLACE INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARPENTER'S PLACE INC?
- Community Foundation of Northern IL is the largest funder on record, with $335,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARPENTER'S PLACE 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 42 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