Illinois · Nonprofit
DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc
DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,603 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($260,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $398k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $567k
- Net assets
- $423k
What DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc does
Mission
Promote responsible sustainable homeownership, with an emphasis on serving first time homebuyers, low and moderate income households and homeowners in crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeownership preservation services - free workshops and individual counseling to help homeowners in financial crisis prevent foreclosure, as well as free reverse mortgage counseling to help senior homeowners objectively explore options to increase cash flow and maintain independence.
$361,405 spent79% of program spendingPrepurchase and financial literacy services - free education classes and individual counseling to help first time homebuyers and renters (particularly low income housheolds and other traditionally underserved populations) improve their financial management skills, make informed consumer choices and become responsible homeowners or renters.
$82,345 spent18% of program spendingCommunity education and outreach - community education, outreach and collaboration on affordable housing issues, including coordination of the affordable housing breakfast group three times each year in cooperation with Wheaton College.
$13,724 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $457,474.
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 2021 to 2022, from $914k to $607k (−34%).
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 65% · 2018 33% · 2019 67% · 2020 54% · 2021 33% · 2022 71% · 2023 88% · 2024 59% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $181k → $34k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc’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.
How concentrated its funding is
DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 54% · 2019 58% · 2020 65% · 2021 55% · 2022 43% · 2023 97% — 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
80% of DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
50% of DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $281k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc is better cushioned than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Together LLC · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc: 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 DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc?
- DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,603 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($260,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $566,603 in grants to DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage Inc?
- THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DuPage Homeownership Center Inc dba HOME DuPage 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 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing