Kids Above All Illinois

Kids Above All Illinois, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient for homelessness intervention and early childhood services, with the majority of recent work flowing through state pass-through grantees rather than direct federal prime awards. The organization operates primarily in a sub-recipient capacity (68% of recent awards) on federal grants administered by state agencies, particularly the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Kids Above All Illinois's federal grant footprint centers on two distinct program areas. The primary mission is homelessness intervention under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), where the organization serves as a direct prime recipient. Recent CoC awards include $625,102 for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026; $407,953 for February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2027; and prior annual awards dating back to 2022. Under these grants, the organization delivers permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services only, and Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) operations across Chicago. Eligible activities funded include property acquisition and rehabilitation, new construction, rental assistance, case management, and CoC planning costs. The secondary federal program is the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) initiative, where Kids Above All Illinois received a kindergarten readiness project grant (CFDA unspecified) awarded August 31, 2023 through August 30, 2025 from HHS's Office of Planning Research and Evaluation.

Customer concentration is narrow and state-mediated. The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration accounts for 35 awards, and HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 19 awards, representing 87% of recent award volume. However, the prime-versus-sub split reveals a fundamental dependency: of the 63 total awards in the source data, only 20 are prime grants; the remaining 43 are sub-awards. The sub-award stream is dominated by Illinois Department of Human Services pass-throughs for MIECHV home visiting (15 sub-awards dating to 2023), Emergency Solutions and homeless assistance sub-awards (multiple 2024 awards), and maternal and infant health home visiting sub-awards (clustered around July and October 2024). This structure indicates Kids Above All Illinois functions primarily as a service delivery subgrantee on federally funded state programs rather than as a direct federal grantee competing for prime awards.

Activity spiked in 2023 with 26 awards and has contracted since, dropping to 5 in 2025 and 1 in the first quarter of 2026. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The organization's federal footprint totals $19.3 million in combined dollars obligated across all awards, with HUD's CoC funding and HHS's MIECHV and home visiting programs anchoring the operational scope.