Illinois · Nonprofit
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS (Illinois) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,800,042 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($1,630,297). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Facing Forward to End Homelessness does
Mission
To end homelessness for families and individuals by offering home, help, and hope.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scattered site programs: safe at home I, iii, & v; shelter graduates I & ii; vital veteransin collaboration with landlords across chicago, facing forward's permanent supportive housing (psh) programs provide long-term housing and comprehensive support services for families and individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness and live with disabling conditions. Based on housing first principles, our programs prioritize immediate access to stable housing without additional preconditions or predetermined end dates. Through stable housing, case management, age-specific support from facing forward's family empowerment team, and connections to our network of over 100 trusted community partners, psh clients gain access to essential resources and empowering opportunities that end the cycle of homelessness today, and for generations to come. Facing forward served 245 households, or 559 individuals, through permanent supportive housing in fy25.
$4,304,477 spent$172,678 earned by the program74% of program spendingSupportive services programs: sanctuary place, home connections, home connections ii, housing resource specialists (formerly skilled assessors), housing location, first foundationssanctuary place - clients in this program reside at sanctuary place, a 69-unit housing development in chicago's west humboldt park neighborhood. It offers 63 studio apartments for single residents, 6 townhomes for families, and access to on-site case management and supportive services. The organization provides long-term housing and supportive services which are designed to enhance the quality of life for the residents and empower them in moving toward progressively self-sufficient living. Support services include promoting residential stability, increasing household income, addressing healthcare needs, educational advancement, job readiness, and everything else identified as a root cause of homelessness or a barrier to advancement. Services are provided by the organization as well as through linkage agreements with other agencies.housing resource specialists (formerly skilled assessors): in partnership with local shelters, facing forward conducts one-time assessments focused on housing needs and…
$1,546,262 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,850,739.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $3.2M (+140%).
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 82% · 2018 82% · 2019 81% · 2020 78% · 2021 61% · 2022 68% · 2023 74% · 2024 77% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Douglas Bradshaw
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $35k → $1.4M.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 42% · 2019 50% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% — 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
55% of FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
87% of FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $855k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$40.9M
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 FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS
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
79% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: 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 FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS?
- FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS (Illinois) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,800,042 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($1,630,297). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,800,042 in grants to FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS?
- ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY is the largest funder on record, with $1,630,297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS 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 49 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