Public Charity

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC is a Public Charity headquartered in CHICAGO, IL. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $11.8M revenue, $12.5M expenses, $9.4M total assets. 95 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $4.2M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 363263818 CHICAGO, IL Temporary Housing NTEE: L40 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$11.8M
Total Expenses$12.5M
Total Assets$9.4M
Grant Records95
Funding Total$4.2M
Filing Years2020–2025

Mission

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN, INC.'S ("HOW") MISSION IS TO EMPOWER WOMEN, CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TO PERMANENTLY BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS. FOR THE1,000 INDIVIDUALS HOW SERVES EVERY YEAR WE PROVIDE PERMANENTSUPPORTIVE HOUSING, HELP INDIVIDUALS INCREASE THEIR INCOME AND ACCESSTO BENEFITS AND IMPROVE OUR CLIENTS TO OVERCOME THE MULTIPLE BARRIERSTHAT OFTEN PREVENT HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS FROM ACHIEVING THEIR HIGHESTAND BEST POTENTIAL.

Where $100 goes at Housing Opportunities for Women Inc

How Housing Opportunities for Women Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.

$83 Programs the work itself
$14 Management running the organization
$3 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $83 for programs

$83
Housing Opportunities for Women, inc
All program spending · Reported in the filing: 715 households; 1,482 individuals; 395 units of affordable
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

CEO Britt Shawver
INTERIM DIRECTOR OF FINANC Carin Weingarten
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Cassidy Stein
VICE PRESIDENT Denis Pierce
TREASURER Jason C Sullivan
MEMBER Julie O'brien

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Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$3,281,813 69 grants
Housing & Homelessness
$72,541 4 grants
Human & Social Services
$63,400 5 grants
Health & Medicine
$30,000 2 grants
Research & Policy
$20,232 3 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $11.8M $12.5M $9.4M
2024 $10.9M $11.9M $9.9M
2023 $10.2M $11.0M $9.2M
2022 $10.0M $10.6M $9.8M
2020 $9.5M $9.2M $9.2M

Between 2020 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $9.5M to $11.8M (+24%), with total assets most recently reported at $9.4M.

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