Illinois · Nonprofit
Cornerstone Community Outreach
Cornerstone Community Outreach (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,937,389 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($443,232). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $-485063
What Cornerstone Community Outreach does
Mission
Cornerstone Community Outreach was incorporated in 1989 to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged, displaced, & underprivileged Chicagoans from all walks of life through various need-centered programs. We feed the hungry, house the homeless, & provide needed resources & programs all to encourage growth, foster potential, & lay foundations for stability. Our aim is not merely to help individuals survive, but to thrive.The three major shelters of Cornerstone Community Outreach are:Hannah Interim - a 120 day shelter for women with children under 12.Naomi Interim - a 120 day shelter for single women.Sylvia Interim - a 120 day shelter for families.All these programs have similar goals of assisting the client with food, clothing, housing, casework and advocacy service, to help transition the individual to permanent and independent living.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Interim Housing for families & single adults - These shelters provide approximately 120 days of housing, nutritious meals, clothing, group & individual counseling, individualized case management, nursing, as needed mental health assessments, life-skills training, substance abuse counseling, money management, job assessment, job readiness, job referral, computer training classes, housing relocation assistance, & afterschool programs for kids. These programs operate year round & include:Hannah Interim Housing - shelters 55 women with children, including a few couples with children. It is handicap accessible. As the Organization's longest running shelter, it has enabled hundreds of families to move from homelessness to stable housing for over 20 years.Naomi Interim Housing - serves 145 single women & men, providing 24 hour shelter & casework services and the services mentioned above.Sylvia Interim Housing - serves over 130 women with children, men with children & couples with children & has been welcoming homeless families since 2001. This program supports these family groups & gives them much needed shelter & services.
$4,536,977 spentof which $115,693 as grants100% of program spendingOther programs include Computer & Life Skills, Food Bag Program, Dinner Guest Program, Community Support Advisory Council, and Childcare Program.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,536,977.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $3.0M (−23%).
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 56% · 2018 62% · 2019 69% · 2020 73% · 2021 80% · 2022 73% · 2023 77% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Cornerstone Community Outreach’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Andrew Winter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $62k → $218k.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Cornerstone Community Outreach’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
Cornerstone Community Outreach has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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 Cornerstone Community Outreach.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 38% · 2019 69% · 2020 64% · 2021 45% · 2022 84% · 2023 65% — 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
27% of Cornerstone Community Outreach's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
88% of Cornerstone Community Outreach's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $686k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Cornerstone Community Outreach's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Cornerstone Community Outreach
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
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jesus People USA Evangelical Covenant Church · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cornerstone Community Outreach: 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 Cornerstone Community Outreach?
- Cornerstone Community Outreach (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,937,389 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($443,232). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cornerstone Community Outreach have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,937,389 in grants to Cornerstone Community Outreach, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cornerstone Community Outreach?
- ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY is the largest funder on record, with $443,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cornerstone Community Outreach 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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