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Who funds domestic violence programs in Illinois? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 82 grants totaling $5.2 million went to domestic violence programs-related work in Illinois. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of domestic violence programs in Illinois, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST4$1.4 million
HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC4$1.1 million
HOPE CHEST INC2$488,000
ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION7$429,750
INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE1$294,600
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO5$290,000
Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation11$160,000
NETWORK FOR GOOD1$135,019
FRED J BRUNNER FOUNDATION3$95,000
LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION1$90,000

Across all funders: 82 grants, $5.2 million total, median grant $20,000.

Largest recipients in Illinois

RecipientGrantsTotal
THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE10$1.5 million
Center for Prevention of Abuse2$894,221
PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH2$488,000
MUTUAL GROUND1$294,600
LIFE SPAN4$240,886
THE NETWORK - ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE3$210,195
Freedom House2$205,939
WINGS Program Inc4$113,250
SWEDISH HOSPITAL1$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO1$90,000

Open federal opportunities addressing domestic violence programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Illinois can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "domestic violence"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: intimate partner violence, family violence, survivor services.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
O-OVW-2026-172634OVW Fiscal Year 2026 State and Territory Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault CoOffice on Violence Against Women$106,581 to $343,06508/31/2026
O-OVW-2026-172652OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Consolidated Grant Program to Assist Children and Youth AffOffice on Violence Against Women$350,000 to $500,00009/08/2026
O-OVW-2026-172633OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response to DomesticOffice on Violence Against Women$400,000 to $1.5 million08/18/2026
O-OVW-2026-172636OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) Grant ProgramOffice on Violence Against Women$1.0 million to $1.5 million08/11/2026
CPD-2600-DC-0025FY 2026 Continuum of Care Competition and Youth Homelessness Demonstration ProgrDepartment of Housing and Urban Development$2,500 to $25.0 million08/26/2026
O-OVW-2026-172635OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Grants to Indian Tribal Governments ProgramOffice on Violence Against Women$300,000 to $900,00009/01/2026
O-BJA-2026-172662U.S. Department of Justice FY26 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation NoticBureau of Justice Assistanceup to $5.6 million10/15/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 510 listings mentioning "domestic violence programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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