Illinois · Nonprofit
Community Threads
Community Threads (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE JEPS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $628k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $0
What Community Threads does
Mission
Community Threads provides hope, opportunity and support that empowers women and children as they journey from homelessness to self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Community Threads provided cash grants of $126,000 to organizations who are assisting under-resourced individuals in our community. Funding for Christian education and pastoral training was also provided. In the future, Community Threads will focus on supporting women and children as they journey from homelessness to self-sufficiency. We will accomplish this through Home of the Sparrow by the merger of our two organizations as of June 30, 2019. We also provide numerous volunteer opportunities for those who need to fulfill community service requirements as well as many individuals for whom volunteer service is therapeutic for themselves. Community Threads volunteers collectively served over 25,000 hours in the past fiscal year.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $298k to $0 (−100%).
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. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Community Threads’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.
Where its funders are
Community Threads draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like Community Threads
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
94% 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
- Home of the Sparrow Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Threads: 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 Community Threads?
- Community Threads (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE JEPS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Threads have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Community Threads.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Threads?
- THE JEPS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Threads 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1 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