Illinois · Nonprofit
CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT
CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,715 to it, the largest being Helen V Brach Foundation ($40,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $430k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Casa Esperanza Project does
Mission
The mission of casa esperanza is to establish mutual respect among all people, so that the absolute value of every human being, especially the poor and the neediest is recognized. Thus, the Casa Esperanza Project was started as a means to restore and support the dignity of homeless persons, especially women and children and to enable them to fulfill their human potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Casa Esperanza Project developed an alumni program that assists our graduates (individuals who transitioned from casa into permanent housing). It program aims to provide one year of ongoing supportive services for the graduates by providing them with case management, mental health services and engagement in arts and cultural activities.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Transitional housing & supportive servicesCasa Esperanza Project provided transitional housing and comprehensive supportive services to 21 women and families experiencing homelessness during 2025. The program delivered an estimated 7,6008,000 days of safe, stable housing and offered approximately 500 case management sessions, 150 mental health counseling sessions, and 4555 lifeskills, financial literacy, parenting, and domesticviolence education workshops. Services focused on stabilizing families, increasing safety, and supporting progress toward permanent housing, education, and employment. Several residents achieved key milestones including ged completion, cna and phlebotomy certifications, and job placement, with multiple families transitioning successfully into permanent housing.
$212,515 spent70% of program spendingYouth enrichment & mental health supportCasa Esperanza Project provided weekly youth enrichment and socialemotional learning activities for children and teens residing in the program, totaling an estimated 175200 contact hours in 2025. Activities included tutoring, arts programming, mentoring, and ageappropriate therapeutic support delivered in partnership with community clinicians. The objective of the youth program is to strengthen emotional wellness, academic engagement, and longterm stability for children impacted by homelessness and trauma. Longterm goals include expanding mental health services through initiatives such as the emerging hope forward program.
$60,719 spent20% of program spendingCommunity engagement, alumni support & accessibility servicesCasa Esperanza Project expanded community engagement and alumni support efforts during 2025, providing monthly resource events, workshops, and outreach activities that benefited an estimated 100145 individuals beyond current residents. The organization also offered interpretive services for deaf and hardofhearing residents to ensure equitable access to all programming. Alumni received ongoing support through case management checkins, referrals, and communitybuilding activities designed to promote longterm housing stability and economic mobility.
$30,359 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,593.
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 2017 to 2018, from $33k to $251k (+669%).
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.
97% of CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Elaine Seaton
Executive director
Board chair
Jean Kielty
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $30k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 14 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
CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
62% 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 CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 78% · 2022 72% · 2023 66% — 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 CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% 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
82% of CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT
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
81% 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 CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT: 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 CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT?
- CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,715 to it, the largest being Helen V Brach Foundation ($40,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $180,715 in grants to CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT?
- Helen V Brach Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $40,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT 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 14 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing