Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County

Analysis

Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County is a registered charity in United States, based in Hillside, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County reported income of $3.5m and spending of $3.4m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $3.5m (+89%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($3.5m), Retirement Community of Fairbanks ($3.5m) and Utica Neighborhood Housing Service Inc ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $177k (5.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $496k, net assets of $1.0m. It reported 19 employees.