Illinois · Nonprofit
CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN
CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,030,048 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($1,637,248). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Connections for Abused Women and Their Children does
Mission
Cawc is committed to ending domestic violence. Using a self-help, empowerment approach, we provide a shelter for adults and children, counseling, advocacy, and a 24-hour hotline for people affected by domestic violence. We work for social change through education, service collaboration, and institutional advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1979, greenhouse shelter is an emergency shelter for 300 adults and children victims of domestic violence. Services include 23-hour hotline for more than 3,000 callers counseling, legal advocacy, substance abuse counseling, referrals and information, family trauma therapy and housing assitance, services are available in several languages.
$2,071,939 spent60% of program spendingSince 2000 humboldt park outreach program hpop has offered domestic violence outreach and walk-in/by appointmnet bilingual services for 350 individuals. Services include individual and group counseling, legal advocacy, family trauma therapy, information and referral, education and prevention in schools and the community. Hpop serves approximately 350 adults and children
$868,541 spent25% of program spendingHaymarket center is a comprehensive alcohol and drug tteatment program and is one of the largest centers of its kind in the county. Cawc staff provide domestic violence educaton and core domestic violence servcies to haymarket residents. The program also conducts domestic violence trainings with all haymarkey staff to ensure they are able to meet all residents psychosocial and rehabilitative needs,
$146,808 spent4% of program spendingProgram service expenses 369,370, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 hospital crisis intervention project hcip opened in 1992 and is located on-site at john h. Stroger hospital of cook county and in 2014 expanded to northwestern memorial hospital. Hcip staff provides on-going training for hospital personnel on the appropriate identication, assessment and referral of patients who are victims of abuse, advocacy, information, and referrals for the extended services, and on-site crisis intervention and couseling services to victims of domestic violence referred by the medical staff. Each year the hcip services approximately 150 individuals and provides training to more than 1750 health providers.
$369,370 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,456,658.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $4.7M (+25%).
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: 2020 50% · 2021 34% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% · 2024 52% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN’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. 1 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $334k → $925k.
19 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 51% · 2019 51% · 2020 30% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 25% — 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
48% of CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 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
94% of CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$500k
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 CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN
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
66% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN?
- CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,030,048 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($1,637,248). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $8,030,048 in grants to CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN?
- ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $1,637,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 85 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