Illinois · Nonprofit
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,050). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Exchange Club Charitable Organizationshared funderslocal
- Housing Forwardportfolio match
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historyportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS’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
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS.
“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.
Where its funders are
89% of FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
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.
- Exchange Club Charitable Organizationshared funderslocalIL · backs 8 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Housing Forwardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Housing and Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ea Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northwest Illinois Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gerry and Bill Cowlin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pajeau Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future Keys Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
69% 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 FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS?
- FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,450 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,050). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $107,450 in grants to FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $49,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing