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Illinois · Nonprofit
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES (Illinois) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $145,050 in grants to it, the largest being Emme Family Foundation ($79,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 520 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 520 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Grant income rose $6k → $7k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
From the IRS filings of FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 70% · 2024 53% · 2025 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 263 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
69% of spending goes to programs.
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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. view filing