Illinois · Nonprofit
TOGETHER WE COPE
TOGETHER WE COPE (Illinois) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,115,037 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($700,512). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Together We Cope does
Mission
The organization bridges the gap for chicago southland residents in temporary crisis by providing food, shelter, clothing and referrals, empowering them to return to self-sufficiency. Its mission is essentially twofold. First, to provide goods and services directly to the poor and needy. Secondly, the organization acts as a conduit in the broader network of social services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization operates a food pantry five days a week located on its premises, providing a week's worth of groceries and personal care products to residents in need from 26 chicago south suburban communities. The staff is assisted by a large volunteer force, which donated 2,426 hours of service the year ended june 30, 2025. In that same time period, 17,289 clients received assistance from the food pantry. Families received canned and boxed food, bread, meat or poultry or fish as available and produce (in season). Additional assistance is provided during the thanksgiving and christmas seasons in the form of complete holiday meals. Further assistance is provided during the summer months when school is out of session and children need breakfast and lunch in the home.
$1,285,958 spentof which $962,105 as grants46% of program spendingThe organization provides financial assistance to bridge the gap for chicago southland residents in temporary crisis by providing emergency payments for rent, mortgage and utilities so that the families can remain in their homes and not become homeless. 989 clients benefited from the client/vouchers program. Children get special assistance in the back-to- school program in which they receive new backpacks and school supplies, relieving their families of those costs. 341 participants benefited from the back-to-school program. Children again are aided during the christmas season with the santa's workshop program which provides toys, pajamas, hats, scarves, and mittens. 542 clients benefited from the santa's workshop program. Many families also receive free clothing, furniture, and household goods from the agency's resale shop. For the year-ended june 30, 2025, support was provided to more than 321 individuals for the housing programs.
$1,420,412 spentof which $810,052 as grants50% of program spendingThe organization participates in the u.s. Department of housing and urban development's "families first" program providing to homeless parents both housing and guidance in learning basic life skills. This critical support helps homeless parents to succeed at raising and supporting their families. For the year ended june 30, 2025, support for 307 persons was provided through this program, including rent, food, furniture, transportation and educational seminars.
$113,339 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,819,709.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.4M to $1.8M (+30%).
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 25% · 2021 32% · 2022 31% · 2023 56% · 2024 51% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of TOGETHER WE COPE’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. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $164k → $172k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 TOGETHER WE COPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
TOGETHER WE COPE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
80% 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 TOGETHER WE COPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 53% · 2019 43% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 44% · 2023 33% — 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 TOGETHER WE COPE'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
98% of TOGETHER WE COPE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TOGETHER WE COPE's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TOGETHER WE COPE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.2M
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 TOGETHER WE COPE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 TOGETHER WE COPE: 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 TOGETHER WE COPE?
- TOGETHER WE COPE (Illinois) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,115,037 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($700,512). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOGETHER WE COPE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,115,037 in grants to TOGETHER WE COPE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOGETHER WE COPE?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC is the largest funder on record, with $700,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOGETHER WE COPE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 34 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