Day 1 Families Fund - Grant Award
Funding Amount
$2,500,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Geographic Scope: Suburban Cook County, Illinois
Focus Areas:
- Connect families experiencing homelessness with stable housing
- Provide critical support services
- Address family homelessness in suburban communities
- Street outreach and diversion services
- Emergency shelter operations
- Flexible rental assistance
- Housing stability services
- Achievement of functional zero homelessness for families
Award Details:
- Amount: $2,500,000 (one-time grant)
- Year 7 of Day 1 Families Fund annual awards
- Awardee selected among 40 organizations nationwide receiving $110.5 million total in 2024
- 248 total grants totaling nearly $750 million awarded since 2018 across 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico
Target Population:
- Families with minor children experiencing homelessness
- Unsheltered families
- Families in shelters
- Families at-risk of homelessness
Fund Vision: "No child sleeps outside" (inspired by Mary's Place, Seattle)
Contact:
- Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
- Jennifer Hill, Executive Director
- 4415 Harrison Street Suite 228, Hillside, IL 60162
- 708-236-3261
- info@suburbancook.org
What Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 17
- Total given
- $1.47M
- Median grant
- $66K
- Range
- $25K–$248K
- By dollars: Illinois 100%. Top recipient cities: Evanston, IL; Chicago, IL; Palatine, IL.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 12% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
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Housing Forward · Maywood, IL
General assistance
$248K
Beds Plus · Lagrange, IL
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$238K
Connections for the Homeless · Evanston, IL
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$153K
United Way of Metro Chicago · Chicago, IL
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$98K
Proactive Community Services · Flossmoor, IL
General assistance
$84K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Homeless
- Housing
- Supportive housing
- Nonprofits
- Family services
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