Illinois · Nonprofit
COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC
COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,108,810 to it, the largest being BUILD INC ($3,389,432). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Covenant House Illinois Inc does
Mission
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. We meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health care; support them to advance their goals of education and employment; and offer homelessness prevention and aftercare services to reduce the risk of a young person becoming homeless in the first place and the likeliness of recurring homelessness. Covenant house encompasses a robust network of "houses," with best-in-class services and a shared commitment to unconditional love, absolute respect, and relentless support for each young person who comes to our doors. Founded as a drop-in center in new york city in 1972, covenant house now reaches tens of thousands of children and youth every year in our residential, outreach, drop-in, prevention, and aftercare programs. Our dedicated staff across the united states, guatemala, honduras, mexico, and canada employ a strength-based, trauma-informed program model that helps young people discover and develop their power to overcome adversity now and into the future. Our north star is to end youth…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Found in 2017, covenant house illinois (chil) provides comprehensive support services and residential care for homeless and trafficked young people. Since opening our doors, chil has served more than 1,600 youth and provided more than 25,000 nights of shelter and safety. Our mission is to provide young people (ages 18-24) with shelter and safety, trust and community, and a better tomorrow. At chil, we operate several core programs, including our interim housing program, transitional housing program - rights of passage, youth development center, employment & education program, and street outreach & aftercare program. We prioritize meeting the immediate needs of young people experiencing homelessness, providing sustenance and shelter, and access to identification and legal paperwork, all within a safe, stable environment. Our west side chicago campus, located in the east garfield park neighborhood, opened in october 2021 with increased 37 intern shelter bed capacity for youth to stay with no barriers or pre-conditions to entry.
$5,074,461 spentof which $249,866 as grants$60,466 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,074,461.
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 $1.8M to $5.2M (+188%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 14% · 2024 53% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS 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. 2 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.
Board chair
Mark J Hennessy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 36 funders, grant income rose $15k → $2.7M.
13 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Covenant House). These are real filings, and they are not money COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
63% 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 COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 55% · 2020 43% · 2021 14% · 2022 53% · 2023 36% — 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
39% of COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC'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
72% of COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS 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. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
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 COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 31 related entities
- Covenant House · exempt
- Covenant House Alaska · exempt
- Covenant House California · exempt
- Covenant House Florida · exempt
- Covenant House Georgia · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC?
- COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,108,810 to it, the largest being BUILD INC ($3,389,432). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $9,108,810 in grants to COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC?
- BUILD INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,389,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS 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 74 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