Illinois · Nonprofit
SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS
SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,161,783 to it, the largest being HOUSING FORWARD ($1,603,189). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What South Suburban Pads does
Mission
Inter-faith program providing shelter and supportive services to homeless persons. Compassion, hospitality and dignity are key characteristics of the pads program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter program: South Suburban Pads provides free overnight hotel accommodation, free meals, case management, assistance with housing and public benefits applications, healthcare coordination, school assistance for children, and transportation assistance for people who are homeless.
$3,121,952 spentof which $2,229,217 as grants48% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing - the permanent supportive housing programs provide supportive services and housing to families and individuals experiencing homelessness. The programs are ideal for families that are eligible for rent and utility subsidies and who can benefit from supportive services (I.e. Crisis intervention, personalized case management, employment search and skills development, healthcare coordination, mental health services, financial education, life skills, cooking and nutrition classes, computer skills, and tutoring for school-age children). Sspads manages hundred thirty seven (137) owned rental units and provides rental assistance to numerous other units throughout south suburban cook county, illinois.
$2,618,679 spentof which $828,835 as grants$292,428 earned by the program40% of program spendingPrevention and rapid rehousing - the prevention and rapid rehousing provides case management, temporary rent and utility assistance to help individuals and families avoid becoming homeless and to help homeless individuals to move back into sustainable housing.
$818,072 spentof which $422,549 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,558,703.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.8M to $7.6M (+31%).
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 63% · 2018 69% · 2019 67% · 2020 59% · 2021 68% · 2022 67% · 2023 65% · 2024 60% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Doug Kenshol
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $257k → $888k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
78% 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 59% · 2019 67% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
52% of SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS holds deeper cash reserves 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$14.3M
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 SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS
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
98%
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 2 related entities
- Country Club Hills Wellness Center LLC · partnership
- Country Club Hills Wellness Center LP · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS?
- SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,161,783 to it, the largest being HOUSING FORWARD ($1,603,189). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $6,161,783 in grants to SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS?
- HOUSING FORWARD is the largest funder on record, with $1,603,189 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS 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 39 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