Illinois · Nonprofit
THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT
THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,470,725 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($363,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The Humanitarian Service Project does
Mission
To relieve the suffering and humiliation that poverty brings to seniors and children throughout DuPage and Kane Counties of Illinois without discrimination for any reason.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Senior Citizen Project: Serving senior citizens with monthly deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen meat, bread, non-perishable food, personal care goods, and gifts; or grocery store gift cards in order to maintain social distancing.
$275,661 spentof which $153,106 as grants$188,013 earned by the program18% of program spendingChildren's Project: Serving needy children with distribution of school supplies, birthday gifts (which include books, educational games, toys, and supplies for a birthday party); and food available for curbside pickup on a weekly basis, providing social distancing.
$749,537 spentof which $588,441 as grants$685,020 earned by the program49% of program spendingChristmas Offering: Serving needy families, children, and seniors through distribution of non-perishable food, fresh produce, household goods, Christmas presents, and gift cards for grocery and gift purchases for all the seniors and children; all delivered by curbside pickup to maintain social distancing.
$493,230 spentof which $395,298 as grants$539,888 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,518,428.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2.9M to $3.1M (+7%).
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: 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT’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 4 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
Kristin Senne
Executive Director
Board chair
Floyd Kettering
Chair/CFO/C0-Founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $43k → $178k.
9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
60% 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 THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 33% · 2019 24% · 2020 45% · 2021 57% · 2022 18% · 2023 23% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
57% of THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $639k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Illinois funders.
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
THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT is better cushioned than half 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
Organizations like THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: 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 THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT?
- THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,470,725 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($363,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,470,725 in grants to THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $363,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 44 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