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DEBORAH'S PLACE

DEBORAH'S PLACE (Illinois) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,286,102 to it, the largest being Center for Housing and Health ($2,258,562). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.7M
Funders on record
115
Grants received
$9.3M
Net assets
$10M
71/115 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Deborah's Place does

Mission

Deborah's Place opens doors of opportunity for women who are homeless in chicago. Supportive housing and services offer women their key to healing, achieving their goals and moving on from the experience of homelessness.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Deborah's Place serves women who have experienced homelessness, through supportive housing and participant-centered services. Core services include case management, health and wellness, and life skills engagement. Through supportive housing and services, participants at Deborah's Place are giving the opportunity to heal and move on from the experience of homelessness to achieve housing stability, economic security, and improved health and wellness. In fiscal year 2024, Deborah's Place provided housing and services to 676 women, 90% of whom have one or more disabling conditions. During this period, 158 women entered our supportive housing & interim housing programs after homelessness. 92% of residents in Deborah's Place permanent supportive housing programs maintained stable housing. 35% of residents in Deborah's Place interim housing exited to stable housing opportunities. In addition to housing stability, Deborah's Place participants increased their economic security. Though 41% of participants entered Deborah's Place without income, 14% of them are in process to obtaining income through benefits enrollment assistance with our soar trained case managers. For those residents with…

    $5,308,698 spentof which $2,795 as grants$74,262 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,308,698.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 173 ($5.8M) Expenses 108 ($3.8M) Net assets 160 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 121 ($4.1M) Expenses 110 ($3.8M) Net assets 168 ($6.3M)2020 Revenue 126 ($4.2M) Expenses 113 ($3.9M) Net assets 177 ($6.6M)2021 Revenue 145 ($4.8M) Expenses 119 ($4.1M) Net assets 221 ($8.3M)2022 Revenue 149 ($5.0M) Expenses 129 ($4.5M) Net assets 223 ($8.3M)2023 Revenue 150 ($5.0M) Expenses 147 ($5.1M) Net assets 232 ($8.7M)2024 Revenue 167 ($5.6M) Expenses 166 ($5.8M) Net assets 238 ($8.9M)2025 Revenue 230 ($7.7M) Expenses 196 ($6.8M) Net assets 271 ($10M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (196)Net assets (271)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.9M to $6.1M (+57%).

$3.9M
$6.1M
$6.4M
$6.9M
$8.5M
$8.5M
$8.9M
$9.1M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 34% · 2019 49% · 2020 51% · 2021 48% · 2022 50% · 2023 55% · 2024 56% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of DEBORAH'S PLACE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$126k
’17
$2.0M
’18
$241k
’19
$263k
’20
$706k
’21
$515k
’22
−$118k
’23
−$151k
’24
$874k
’25
5.1
months of
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

Katharine Booton-Wilson

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201917161917161717
Joined·+2+0+2+5+4+3+5+4
No longer listed·32326444
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $244k → $1.5M.

17 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 DEBORAH'S PLACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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

DEBORAH'S PLACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

55% 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 DEBORAH'S PLACE.

24%
largest funder
36%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.

“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

62% of DEBORAH'S PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of DEBORAH'S PLACE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DEBORAH'S PLACE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding DEBORAH'S PLACE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.1M on record.

Federal$16.1M
grants $16.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$16.1M

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 DEBORAH'S PLACE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 7%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Deborah's Place II · exempt
  • Deborah's Place III Ltd Ptnrshp · partnership
  • Deborah's Place III Corp · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEBORAH'S PLACE: 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 DEBORAH'S PLACE?
DEBORAH'S PLACE (Illinois) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,286,102 to it, the largest being Center for Housing and Health ($2,258,562). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEBORAH'S PLACE have?
IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $9,286,102 in grants to DEBORAH'S PLACE, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEBORAH'S PLACE?
Center for Housing and Health is the largest funder on record, with $2,258,562 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEBORAH'S PLACE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 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