Illinois · Nonprofit
YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,130,147 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ($37,633,491). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $60M
- Net assets
- $18M
What YWCA Metropolitan Chicago does
Mission
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Unleashing youth and family potential: head start and early head start early head start and head start programs are the backbone of a strong childcare ecosystem, ensuring children are ready for school and supporting parents at work or in their businesses. Ywca metro chicago is a key leader in this effort, partnering with 19 community-based childcare providers to enroll 621 early learners (458 in head start and 163 in early head start), transforming the life trajectory of the next generation. Our goals include: closing the enrollment gap: we strive to close the gap in access and enrollment in lake and dupage counties through coordinated, comprehensive services. Our partnerships with local centers and family childcare providers aim to meet the needs of families in accessible childcare programs. Reaching child development goals: we ensure children meet or exceed developmental goals, including imagination, emotions, curiosity, and initiative. Connecting children to health care: we strengthen the coordination of health care services and resources to ensure children and their families receive high-quality health, oral health, nutrition, and mental health services that support children's…
$20,428,622 spentof which $8,100,538 as grants$144,270 earned by the program64% of program spendingAdvancing safety, healing and belonging sexual violence support services driving the ywca's advancing healing, safety, and belonging strategy, the sexual violence and support services program (svss) at YWCA Metropolitan Chicago is illinois' largest provider of sexual violence services. As a community first responder, svss offers culturally relevant and trauma-informed services to survivors aged 3 to adult and their caregivers. The primary goals are to promote victim safety, reduce trauma, support healing and recovery, and enhance community awareness to shift social norms that prevent sexual violence. In fy24, advocates working 24/7 responded to 617 victims at 10 partner hospitals and assisted 295 individuals with civil and criminal justice procedures. Therapists provided trauma-focused counseling to 259 survivors, and educators delivered 3,669 school and community-based presentations. Overall, the svss program provided nearly 9,000 hours of counseling, case management, and advocacy services to 1,057 survivors and their families. Additionally, the rape crisis hotline received over 1,000 contacts, and community engagement efforts reached 184,000 people. Ywca sexual violence and…
$7,652,241 spentof which $250,854 as grants$103,336 earned by the program24% of program spendingDriving economic equity YWCA Metropolitan Chicago empowers people, especially women of color, with job skills training, financial sustainability, and asset acquisition to help close the racial wealth gap. We offer workforce development, housing access and sustainability, and small business development services, primarily targeting chicago's south and west sides. Our clients are predominantly people of color, most of whom live at or below the poverty level. Since 2008, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago has provided comprehensive economic empowerment services, including workforce development. Our workforce development services enhance access to employment in high-demand sectors like transportation, distribution and logistics, construction, energy utilities, and information technology. We incorporate financial education, digital skills, and career readiness training. Leveraging our strong presence in chicago's south and west side communities, we target these underserved areas for employment services. Our trauma-informed, client-centered, and strengths-based approach ensures participants receive full support. We offer wrap-around services such as childcare, clothing, transportation, and…
$3,904,485 spentof which $203,791 as grants$195,505 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,985,348.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $34M (+59%).
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 22% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 22% · 2021 14% · 2022 28% · 2023 84% · 2024 82% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $6.8M.
21 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership). These are real filings, and they are not money YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO raised.
From the IRS filings of YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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
YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 93% · 2019 93% · 2020 74% · 2021 59% · 2022 61% · 2023 70% — 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
44% of YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
95% of YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $71.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$69.9M
- Small Business Administration$575k
- Department of Justice$550k
- Department of Agriculture$300k
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 YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 1 related entity
- Catalytic Ventures LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: 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 YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO?
- YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,130,147 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ($37,633,491). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $60,130,147 in grants to YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO?
- ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT is the largest funder on record, with $37,633,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO 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 113 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