Illinois · Nonprofit
HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC
HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,953,030 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,825,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Home Sweet Home Ministries Inc does
Mission
Home sweet home ministries demonstrates christ's love through innovative approaches that instill hope, restore lives, and build community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
COMMUNITY SERVICES: The Junction is a community center designed with building connection at its core. The Junction provides a safe and welcoming atmosphere for individuals to be during the day and for other nonprofits from around the Bloomington-Normal community to use for outreach purposes. The Bread for Life Co-op helps low-income individuals and families experiencing food insecurity gain access to fresh foods and other household items, and experience dignity in the process. Rapid Rehousing is a 6-12 month program that provides services designed to quickly identify housing roadblocks, eliminate barriers to homelessness, and find affordable and suitable housing. Once housed, the program assists participants in increasing their stability over time through positive relationships and connections to other service providers.Bridge of Hope is a 12-24 month program that assists families in achieving stability through the help of trained neighboring groups. Families attain permanent housing; financial stability; life-changing friendships; and growth and wholeness.The Home Sweet Home Duplex is rented to families affected by the lack of affordable housing in the Bloomington-Normal…
$1,227,750 spent46% of program spendingShelter care: home sweet home ministries operates a 24 hour, year round residential care program within the billy shelper center (75 bed capacity) with seven beds reserved for veterans. This year, home sweet home provided 19,645 nights of shelter to persons in need. There are separate rooms for families with children. In addition to meals, residents receive toiletries, showers, clothing, case management, and christian ministry. During their stay, individuals and families are matched with a case manager who assists in many areas, including housing, locating childcare, and employment. Programming is available to residential clients with the goal of providing access to educational, spiritual, and therapeutic services that will facilitate and promote meaningful life transformation.
$1,005,565 spent38% of program spendingMeals provided to those in need.
$413,535 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,646,850.
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.
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 $3.0M to $6.8M (+124%).
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 8% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 8% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 16% · 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Matthew C Burgess
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $120k → $620k.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 31% · 2019 34% · 2020 52% · 2021 44% · 2022 49% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
79% of HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC'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 $824k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.1M
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 HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC?
- HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,953,030 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,825,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,953,030 in grants to HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,825,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC 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 37 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