Illinois · Nonprofit
PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,066,244 to it, the largest being Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation ($1,900,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Primo Center for Women & Children does
Mission
For more than 45 years, primo center has empowered families experiencing homelessness to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interim housing is short-term housing that provides a safe, stable place for families while they work toward a more permanent home. It offers support serviceslike case management, employment support, parent education, and counselingto help residents get back on their feet and transition successfully to long-term housing. Supports families for 612 months, focusing on stability, school enrollment, and self-sufficiency.
$4,413,246 spent$390,096 earned by the program52% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing (psh) combines affordable housing with ongoing support services for families and individuals who have experienced homelessness or face barriers to stability. Residents can stay as long as they need while receiving help in case management, building life skills, and improving their overall well-being to reduce returns to homelessness
$1,753,851 spent$877,014 earned by the program21% of program spendingTriage housing & diversion services focuses on helping people avoid entering the shelter system whenever possible. Staff work quickly with single women in crisis to find safe, immediate alternativesaccessing short-term financial help, or connecting to community resourcesso they can stay housed and stable. Primo provides up to 40 beds for fast-tracked housing placements, and tailored alternatives to shelter such as mediation, financial assistance, and reunification support. This service is currently only available for single wome
$1,696,315 spent$48,432 earned by the program20% of program spendingKids connect is a groundbreaking collaboration between government and nonprofits to transform the disconnected systems of health, housing, and education into a true system of care for homeless children and their families. The children and their families who are enrolled in kids connected receive care coordination, case management, therapy, community support, psychiatric services, and physical health services.
$183,923 spent$258,244 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe primo center's early childhood programming provides an on-site early childhood center, parents as teachers home visiting, and child parent psychotherapy, helping families overcome traumatic stress, help children meet developmental milestones, and facilitate families to bond.
$503,084 spent$152,243 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,550,419.
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 $4.1M to $8.8M (+117%).
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 54% · 2018 58% · 2019 41% · 2020 47% · 2021 68% · 2022 71% · 2023 66% · 2024 72% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Felicia Blakley
Chief executive officer - current
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $672k → $1.0M.
11 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN’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
PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
55% 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 PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 20% · 2019 53% · 2020 29% · 2021 34% · 2022 22% · 2023 40% — 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
37% of PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
87% of PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
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 PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN?
- PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,066,244 to it, the largest being Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation ($1,900,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $9,066,244 in grants to PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN?
- Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN 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.
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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing