Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,533 to it, the largest being CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER ($140,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $0
What Chicago South Suburbs Habitat for Humanity does
Mission
Chicago south suburbs habitat is an affiliate of habitat for humanity international, inc., a nondenominational christian-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to serve all persons of all race classes and faiths, and work in partnership to eradicate poverty, change lives, and build stronger communities in and around southern cook county. Although habitat international assists with information resources, training, publications, prayer support and in other ways, habitat chicago south suburbs is primarily and directly responsible for its own operations. Habitat chicago south suburbs furthers its mission by working in partnership with people from all walks of life to build decent houses for families who otherwise would live in substandard conditions. The organization believes that affordable, safe housing is a necessary prerequisite for the health and well-being of the communities served.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Habitat builds or rehabs houses using primarily volunteer labor. Homesare sold to low income families at no profit and with an interest freeloan. In addition to a downpayment and monthly mortgage payments,homeowners invest hundreds of hours and their own labor (sweat equity)into building their habitat houses and houses for others. Habitat alsoprovides a winterization and painting program.
$224,393 spent$83,319 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $224,393.
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 $1.0M to $2.2M (+113%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 Taff
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $70k → $37k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $142k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dupage Habitat for Humanity). These are real filings, and they are not money CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 76% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
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
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
30%
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 2 related entities
- Dupage Habitat for Humanity · exempt
- Restore of Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,533 to it, the largest being CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER ($140,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $413,533 in grants to CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER is the largest funder on record, with $140,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 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