Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO HOPE INC
CHICAGO HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,072 to it, the largest being The Russell and Carey Jeffrey Family Foundation ($65,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Chicago Hope Inc does
Mission
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We operated a free food pantry in collaboration with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, primarily serving residents of Logan Square, Humboldt Park, and Avondale, though open to anyone in need regardless of zip code. All of our patrons are allotted two visits a month. In 2025, the pantry recorded 6,181 visits, serving 1,714 unique households and 3,698 unique individuals, and providing food to 13,123 people in total. Senior Pantry Program - Chicago Hope provided a monthly box of non-perishable food items to senior participants enrolled in the program. In 2025, the program served 268 unique households across 1,130 visits, representing 270 unique individuals.
$42,521 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,521.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Chloe Waters
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $0 → $25k.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO HOPE INC’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
CHICAGO HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 75% · 2021 60% · 2022 82% · 2023 80% — 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
17% of CHICAGO HOPE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
CHICAGO HOPE INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CHICAGO HOPE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE INC?
- CHICAGO HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,072 to it, the largest being The Russell and Carey Jeffrey Family Foundation ($65,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $116,072 in grants to CHICAGO HOPE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO HOPE INC?
- The Russell and Carey Jeffrey Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO HOPE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 11 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