Illinois · Nonprofit
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,117,275 to it, the largest being AIDS Foundation of Chicago ($1,418,508). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Housing Opportunities for Women Inc does
Mission
Housing opportunities for women, inc.'s ("how") mission is to empower women, children and families to permanently break the cycle of poverty and homelessness. For the1,000 individuals how serves every year we provide permanentsupportive housing, help individuals increase their income and accessto benefits and improve our clients to overcome the multiple barriersthat often prevent homeless individuals from achieving their highestand best potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
How provides permanent supportive housing to 1,000 individualsannually. How clients are often disabled and unable to work,chronically homeless and have mental and physical health issues thatneed to be addressed. Headquartered in the rogers park neighborhood,how employs the housing first model to get individuals and families aplace to call home. Once housed we work to reintegrate clients intothe neighborhood of choice through our scattered site housing thatstretches across the entire city of chicago. At how, we are focused onbuilding on our clients individual strengths and connecting them tocommunity resources. Through this combination we can create lastingpositive change for our clients.how clients have a wide variety of personal and family issues that needto be addressed in order to create lasting change. At how, we providehigh quality academic after school counseling, drug and alcohol supportgroups, referrals to appropriate medical and mental health resourcesand employment readiness and placement services. Each client is caredfor by an intensive case manager who, in partnership with the client,develops an individual goal plan that creates a pathway to achievingindependence and…
$9,221,822 spentof which $5,013,447 as grants$499,318 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,221,822.
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 $7.5M to $9.2M (+23%).
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 70% · 2018 75% · 2019 83% · 2020 81% · 2021 60% · 2022 82% · 2023 88% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Britt Shawver
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $207k → $1.1M.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 34% · 2019 41% · 2020 23% · 2021 24% · 2022 33% · 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
59% of HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN 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
93% of HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$59.2M
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 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 3 related entities
- 2215 Dempster LLC · disregarded
- 1614-1622 Jonquil Terrace · exempt
- Jonquil Development Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC?
- HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,117,275 to it, the largest being AIDS Foundation of Chicago ($1,418,508). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $6,117,275 in grants to HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC?
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago is the largest funder on record, with $1,418,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60 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