Illinois · Nonprofit
SISTERHOUSE
SISTERHOUSE (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,358,320 to it, the largest being HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($210,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $570k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $561k
What Sisterhouse does
Mission
Sisterhouse educates and empowers women to lead sober and fulfilling lives by providing a safe and structured spiritual living community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sisterhouse provides shelter and comprehensive services to homeless women recovering from addiction, mental illness, and poverty. Through the recovery is possible program, residents access intensive outpatient and and outpatient therapy, life skills training, behavioral health counseling, daily aa meetings, job training, placement, and housing resources, with stays of up to 18 months. Women who achieve stable employment and sobriety may transition to reduced-rent housing in the annex as a bridge to independence. In 2025, Sisterhouse served 53 women with the following results: - 100% had basic, medical, psychiatric needs met and completed mental health evaluations - 52% or 10 clients completed 75 hours of intensive outpatient and 30 hours of outpatient therapy 6 additional clients working were close to completing at the end of 2025. - 92% (49/53) sustained sobriety; 87% (46/53) stayed compliant with treatment and showed improved mental health. - 100% (8/8) eligible clients enrolled in job training - 75% (6/8) of phase three clients gained employment or increased income; 75% (6/8) secured housing, including 2 in the annex.
$491,605 spent$23,759 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $491,605.
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 $543k to $1.0M (+85%).
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 8% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SISTERHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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
Patricia Banks
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $33k → $203k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SISTERHOUSE’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
SISTERHOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 94% · 2019 28% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% — 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
50% of SISTERHOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
90% of SISTERHOUSE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SISTERHOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SISTERHOUSE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 SISTERHOUSE: 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 SISTERHOUSE?
- SISTERHOUSE (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,358,320 to it, the largest being HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($210,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SISTERHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,358,320 in grants to SISTERHOUSE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SISTERHOUSE?
- HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SISTERHOUSE 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 29 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