Illinois · Nonprofit
Of Color Inc
Of Color Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,267,782 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($645,627). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $633k
What Of Color Inc does
Mission
To help people of all colors enhance their own economic and educational goals
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
New Program Service CTIG- The Community Transition Investment Grant CTIG is a capacity building grant funded by the Department of Human Services via a partnership with All Chicago. It supports the agency in its efforts to strengthen Operations in a variety of areas Training Board and Staff, Human Resource Training and Review, inclusive of background checks and supporting the onboarding process for new employees. It also supports the cost of a P-T Development Manager, a new CRM Database, needed supplies, and activities for our recent 5-Year Celebration event. CTIG is slated for one year only ending June 30, 2026.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Illinois Youth Investment program provides targeted long-term employment and youth apprenticeship programs. Its services deliver a holistic approach to the workforce environment including personal development, job training, work-based learning, supportive services, mentoring and coaching services to young adults ages 18-24. IYIP focuses on executive functioning and self-regulation skill development to enable planning, memory and multi-tasking capabilities of its youth.
$500,380 spent19% of program spendingHomeless Veterans Reintegration program HVRP provides employment, training, and housing linkage services for homeless veteran populations identified as young adults, women with children, chronic homeless and recently incarcerated. HVRP serves urban communities on the south and west side of Chicago whose communities range from 20 - 50 below poverty levels and experience 30 - 52 unemployment rates.
$384,750 spent14% of program spendingThe Rapid Re-Housing RRH program is a short-term maximum 12 months, with the possibility of extending for an additional 12 months rental subsidy program. It was designed by the federal department of housing and urban development HUD to serve homeless families throughout the city of Chicago. Of Color Inc serves sixty families in helping them to secure stable housing to avoid homelessness in the future.
$262,174 spent10% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 31,330, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The Community Transition Investment Grant CTIG is a capacity building grant funded by the Department of Human Services via a partnership with All Chicago. It supports the agency in its efforts to strengthen Operations in a variety of areas Training Board and Staff, Human Resource Training and Review, inclusive of background checks and supporting the onboarding process for new employees. It also supports the cost of a P-T Development Manager, a new CRM Database, needed supplies, and activities for our recent 5-Year Celebration event. CTIG is slated for one year only ending June 30, 2026. Program Service Expenses 152,124, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Flexible Housing Pool FHP - Housing Provides cross-sector investment and innovative program delivery strategy to increase supportive housing resources in Chicago and Cook County for populations at the intersection of homelessness, complex physical and behavioral health needs, and criminal justice involvement. Of Color Inc serves 60 families and children to help them sustain housing and work with those that are able to find employment with a livable wage.…
$1,519,731 spent57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,667,035.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $298k to $700k (+135%).
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: 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% · 2024 94% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Of Color 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. 2 of the last 7 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
Renita White
Executive Director
Board chair
Angela Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $33 → $312k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Of Color Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
Of Color Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Of Color Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Of Color 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. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Of Color Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Of Color Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.4M
- Department of Labor$2.9M
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 Of Color 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Of Color Inc?
- Of Color Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,267,782 to it, the largest being ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ($645,627). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Of Color Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,267,782 in grants to Of Color Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Of Color Inc?
- ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY is the largest funder on record, with $645,627 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Of Color 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 2019–2025), 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