Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC
COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,553,314 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($5,798,742). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Community Help Center Inc does
Mission
The mission is to assist immigrant and refugee muslim women and their families in overcoming cultural and language barriers, while empowering them with the appropriate occupational skills for them to become self-sufficient and ready to enter the job market.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The citizenship education - mwrc helps students prepare for their immigration and naturalization service citizenship exams by providing classroom instruction and individual tutoring in united states history and civics. Citiizenship workshops- mmrc offers monthly citizenship workshop for community members to receive citizenship application assistance. Staff members work directly with them to fill out the application forms.
$1,129,751 spent53% of program spendingWelcome center - employment and job-placement training due to the covid-19 pandemic, the need for employment assistance is particularly high. Mwrc aims to recruit clients that are out of work or under-employed, and provide those individuals with the necessary job readiness training to obtain and retain a job, as well as support themsleves and their loved ones on their journey going forward. Mwrc is developing an individualized plan with each client at intake for their specfic career and employment needs. This outreach and assistance may involve, but is not limited to, one-on-one meetings to help with resume building, job searching and placement, and/or hosting workshops to help each client become well informed of the placement process.
$527,391 spent25% of program spendingThe afghan refugee case management program exlusively focuses on refugees who have arrived in the united states on or after august 2021. The arcmp provides a multitude of services, such as cultural orientation workshops, three levels of english classes, vocational training programs, rental assistance programs, an interpretation hotline, intensive case management, in-person translation and interpretation, fieldwork, etc., all aimed at helping regugees bridge the gap to cultural integration and help them socially assimilate. The organizations goal is to strengthen newcomers and inspire them to be contributing members of society.
$306,230 spent14% of program spendingProgram service expenses 173,366, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 social services immigrant family resource and other miscellaneous programs - women infant and children wic social service program. Mwrc staff work with the illinois department of human services to break down language and cultural barriers and help clients identify and access benefits that are available to them through local, state, and federal programs. Mwrc staff travel to idhs offices to provide on-site interpretation to clients applying for assistance such as aabd, all kids, food stamps, medicaid, tanf, ssi, and wic clinics. Our staff provides assistance in several languages and dialects to match the client with the appropriate resources and mwrc helps immigrant and refugee families face the many issues that are encountered as new americans.
$173,366 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,136,738.
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 $2.2M to $3.0M (+32%).
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 20% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 38% · 2021 68% · 2022 91% · 2023 95% · 2024 92% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sima Quraishi
Executive director
Board chair
Mollie Dowling
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $255k → $426k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 COMMUNITY HELP CENTER 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
COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 88% · 2019 95% · 2020 83% · 2021 54% · 2022 95% · 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
98% of COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $333k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$333k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Mwrc International LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,553,314 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($5,798,742). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $6,553,314 in grants to COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY HELP CENTER INC?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $5,798,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY HELP CENTER 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 9 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