Alliance To End Homelessness

Alliance To End Homelessness, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Hillside, Illinois, serves as the prime recipient of federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, delivering comprehensive homelessness intervention and prevention services across suburban Cook County as the lead agency for the Cook County Continuum of Care. The organization operates predominantly as a prime grant recipient (86% of recent awards) rather than as a contractor or subrecipient, with all significant federal funding flowing through HUD's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) and related initiatives.

Alliance To End Homelessness's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on HUD's homelessness-response grant portfolio. Among 81 total awards spanning the past four years, 70 awards represent prime Continuum of Care grants with combined obligated dollars of $27.7 million, while 11 awards represent sub-recipient arrangements. The organization's customer concentration is singular: HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 88% of recent awards. Recent prime grants include a $1,166,097 CoC Project Grant (CFDA 14.267) awarded June 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for May 31, 2027; a $798,522 CoC grant effective November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2026; a $541,880 award focused on the Entry Point Coordinated Entry/Domestic Violence system for October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026; and a $515,063 Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) grant for the same period supporting a youth coordinated entry system serving unaccompanied individuals ages 24 and under.

Alliance's service delivery model centers on operating regional coordinated entry systems, street outreach, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) administration, emergency shelter coordination, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, and homelessness prevention across five program components specified in the CoC statute. The organization coordinates these services through formal sub-awards to local nonprofit partners including Respond Now, Housing Forward, Beds Plus, Journeys | The Road Home (Pads To Hope), Connections For The Homeless, Crisis Center For South Suburbia, Wings Program Inc., Pillars Community Health, YWCA Evanston/North Shore, Sarah's Inn, Anew Building Beyond Violence And Abuse, South Suburban Pads, Arab American Family Services, and Proactive Community Service. Sub-recipient activity includes $27,700 in sub-awards for HMIS data coordination, planning, coordinated entry call center operations, and emergency shelter management with completion dates ranging from October 2025 through March 2024. The organization also holds a sub-recipient position under Cook County Department of Public Health for street outreach services and housing connections for unsheltered individuals across suburban Cook County.

Activity has tracked unevenly—eight awards in 2022, seven in 2023, fourteen in 2024, ten in 2025, and two as of July 2026—with seven awards carrying ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, representing potential recompete exposure on annual or biennial CoC grant cycles. Beyond HUD CoC funding, the source identifies one award from the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, indicating minimal federal customer diversification outside the homelessness-response space.