Illinois · Nonprofit
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,991,545 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($263,580). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc does
Mission
To provide veterans and their families with housing and supportive services that lead to self-sufficiency and to ensure that no veteran is left behind due to homelessness, joblessness, poverty, and/or mental health issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides housing, supportive services, and community outreach to help homeless and at-risk veterans and their families achieve self-sufficiency. From its transitional housing facility in wheaton, illinois, the organization successfully transitioned many veterans, meaning the individuals were moving into permanent housing upon discharge. The organization also housed numerous veterans in their affordable housing program and in their permanent supportive housing programs. The organization has also assisted households with supplies, services, and referrals through their community outreach efforts.
$2,567,008 spent$43,771 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe organization assisted numerous households and individuals, with housing and support services through their supportive services for veteran families program. This program provides services to low-income homeless and at-risk veteran families living in or transitioning to permanent housing in dekalb, dupage, grundy, kane, kendall, lasalle, and will counties. Provided services include case services such as mental health care and other benefits. Under the program, the organization also offers financial assistance to veterans for rent, utility, and security deposit payments. The organization also assists unemployed and underemployed veterans and their families with obtaining and maintaining employment through the veteran employment program, and the organization served numerous veterans in this capacity.
$4,063,496 spentof which $4,063,496 as grants61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,630,504.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.0M to $3.9M (+29%).
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 52% · 2018 52% · 2019 50% · 2020 72% · 2021 48% · 2022 34% · 2023 48% · 2024 72% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Christine Lewis
Chief executive officer
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 2 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1k → $206k.
11 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
59% 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 MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 84% · 2019 50% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 43% · 2023 29% — 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
38% of MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $831k 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
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.3M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$17.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$939k
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 MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC: 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 MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC?
- MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,991,545 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($263,580). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $1,991,545 in grants to MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $263,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS 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 67 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