Illinois · Nonprofit
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY (Illinois) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,470,761 to it, the largest being CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER ($1,479,947). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley does
Mission
To advocate on behalf of those in need of decent shelter by building and renovating affordable houses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. The houses built by habitat and its volunteers are sold to low-income buyers at fair market value and financed by habitat with zero interest loans. Mortgage payments go to fund more houses. In addition to the homeownership and mortgage lending programs, habitat also operates a critical home repair program. In fy25, thirteen (13) single-family homes were completed - six (6) in crystal lake; four (4) in elgin, and three (3) in carpentersville. Furthermore, the organization completed sixty-eight (68) repair and modification projects through its critical home repair and aging in place programs.
$8,929,088 spent$4,233,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,929,088.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.3M to $11M (+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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 29% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% · 2024 16% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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
David Leali
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $98k → $462k.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY’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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 60% · 2019 57% · 2020 38% · 2021 66% · 2022 66% · 2023 38% — 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
29% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
52% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $538k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY has grown faster than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $975k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$975k
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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY
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
93% 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
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 OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY: 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 OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY (Illinois) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,470,761 to it, the largest being CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER ($1,479,947). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,470,761 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY?
- CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER is the largest funder on record, with $1,479,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing