Illinois · Nonprofit
HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC
HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,455 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($218,187). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $957k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Housing Options for the Mentally-Ill in Evanston Inc does
Mission
We empower participants living with mental illness through individualized housing, employment, and clinical services so they can achieve their goals and live as independently as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support service: impact behavioral health partners provides wraparound support services to adults living with mental illness. Impact serves over 1,400 individuals throughout chicago and its north and northwest suburbs. Our diverse treatment team includes masters level therapists, case managers, and employment specialists. Participants choose which programs and services they would like to participate in including: case management services, therapy, and supportive employment services. All services and goals are tailored to the needs of each participant.in response to the growing need for accessible mental health care among very low-income, medicaid-enrolled or medicaid-eligible individuals in evanston and skokie, impact launched its clinical community referral program in 2023. The program connects participants with master's-level therapists and case managers who offer time-unlimited, individualized therapy and support. Since its inception, demand has far exceeded capacity--despite no active promotion--the waitlist is 45-people long, with wait times of four-to five months.impact provides employment services to participants who are living with a mental illness and medicaid enrolled or…
$3,969,219 spentof which $20,171 as grants$3,710,123 earned by the program71% of program spendingBuilding management: impact behavioral health partners owns eight apartment buildings and one single family home. The organization fully furnishes and equips all of its apartments with furniture, appliances, linens and dishes. Most residents live in studio, one, two or three bedroom apartments, but each has his or her own bedroom. To help ensure that housing is affordable to residents, rent is paid on a sliding scale. Impact subsidizes rents so that residents are able to concentrate on their recovery. As many residents have been homeless at some point in their lives, providing a safe and comfortable home is essential to the recovery process. As part of impact's wraparound model of service, housing participants may work with a dedicated housing stability specialist who addresses participant issues that may affect tenancy. Support services are offered to all persons residing in impact owned or leased housing.
$1,639,571 spentof which $2,392 as grants$153,384 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,608,790.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.3M to $14M (+63%).
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 59% · 2018 67% · 2019 33% · 2020 71% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 54% · 2024 37% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Patti Capouch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $121k → $79k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC’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
HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
92% 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 OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 49% · 2019 57% · 2020 32% · 2021 41% · 2022 58% · 2023 39% — 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
67% of HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC'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
69% of HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON 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 $297k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k 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
HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
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 OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Impact Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Impact Floral LLC · disregarded
- Impact Brummell LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC?
- HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,455 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($218,187). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $957,455 in grants to HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON INC?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC is the largest funder on record, with $218,187 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY-ILL IN EVANSTON 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 13 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