Illinois · Nonprofit
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,335,859 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($1,335,200). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Habitat for Humanity Lake County does
Mission
Provide affordable housing to families in need in the lake county, illinois area through volunteer efforts. Seeking to put god's love into action, Habitat for Humanity Lake County brings people together to build honmes, communities, and hope.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the current fiscal year, Habitat for Humanity Lake County completed the sale of two (2) affordable homes in waukegan, illinois. To qualify low-to moderate income families pursuing home ownership opportunities apply. The organization also continued to develop activities for furture affordable housing projects, including land acquistions, subdivision planning, and related infrastructure support. The organization continued providing finanvial literacy, budgeting and "sweat equity" education to help prepare partner families for long-term sucessful home-ownership.
$2,756,852 spent$1,346,211 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,756,852.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.4M to $8.0M (+8%).
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 3% · 2018 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Kyle Steiner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $112k → $1.0M.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 55% · 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 30% — 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
63% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
81% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $519k 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY
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
99%
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
- Habitat for Humanity International · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY: 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,335,859 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($1,335,200). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,335,859 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY?
- AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,335,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY 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 32 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