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CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO

CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,010 to it, the largest being CENTENE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$232k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$322k
Net assets
$260k
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What City of Refuge - Chicago does

Mission

The mission of City of Refuge - Chicago is to bring light, hope, and transformation to individuals and their families on the westside of Chicago. We accomplish this mission through resource distribution, youth development programming, and various special events to build community cohesion resulting in violence reduction.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Care and Resource Center - offers counseling, financial literacy, limited financial services, distribution of household goods, non-perishable and limited perishable grocery items. We served over 1500 in 2025.

    $35,360 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. The youth development arm is called Chicago Westside and Southside Police and Youth Sports. CORC partners with local and state law enforcement, local non-profits, and local faith-based organizations to offer free quality sports that create safe spaces and community building for youth and their families, as well as connecting resources to those that need them. Served over 1100 youth in 2025.

    $159,908 spent
    73% of program spending
  3. The largest special event was the Westside Christmas Drive Thru - a collaboration between local law enforcement, local non-profits, and local faith-based organizations to provide a holiday event providing hundreds of coats, hats, scarves, gloves and toys. Served over 400 in 2025.

    $23,316 spent
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $218,584.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($131k)2020 Revenue 62 ($113k) Expenses 154 ($83k) Net assets 122 ($160k)2021 Revenue 103 ($187k) Expenses 196 ($106k) Net assets 184 ($241k)2022 Revenue 163 ($297k) Expenses 413 ($224k) Net assets 221 ($288k)2023 Revenue 233 ($424k) Expenses 551 ($298k) Net assets 317 ($414k)2024 Revenue 159 ($290k) Expenses 735 ($398k) Net assets 234 ($306k)2025 Revenue 128 ($232k) Expenses 512 ($277k) Net assets 199 ($260k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (128)Expenses (512)Net assets (199)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $288k to $414k (+43%).

$131k
$160k
$241k
$288k
$414k
$306k
$260k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$128k
’19
$29k
’20
$81k
’21
$73k
’22
$125k
’23
−$108k
’24
−$46k
’25
1.8
months of
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

Stephanie Marquardt

Executive Director

Board chair

Kent Steiner

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5666
Joined·+2+0+1
No longer listed·101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $59k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 15 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

CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO.

28%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 76% · 2022 53% · 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

20% of CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

IL
PA
CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’22
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO?
CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,010 to it, the largest being CENTENE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $322,010 in grants to CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO?
CENTENE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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