Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights is a nonprofit organization that focuses on combating poverty in low-income neighborhoods.

At-A-Glance

Issue Areas: Housing Policy
Location: Chicago, IL View on map
Tax ID: 36-1877640
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $0 Revenue: $0 Expenses: $0

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights is a nonprofit organization that focuses on combating poverty in low-income neighborhoods.

Financial Statistics

Total Assets

Total Revenue

Total Expenses

YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
2025 View
2024 $2,701,773 $12,827,387 $29,816,984 View
2023 $44,797,231 $57,472,627 $59,237,562 View
2022 $53,716,620 $52,378,447 $51,976,324 View
2021 $60,078,611 $51,743,889 $47,734,412 View

Prior year filings: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Revenue Detail

Expenses Detail

Employee Compensation

  • Number of Employees: 357

Highest Earning Employees

EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
Julia GetzelsGeneral Counsel/Secretary$406,378
Edward StellonChief External Affairs Officer$180,313
Donald LaackmanInterim President/CEO$150,097
David WellsDeputy Chief Admin Officer$117,555

Grant Activity

All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

  • Total Grant Value: $182,428,660
  • Number of Grants: 1,138
  • Number of Funders: 259

Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

AmountYearFunderSubject
$12,265,8102020 The Chicago Community TrustTO SUPPORT CAREER PATHWAYS, READI CHICAGO, THE NATIONAL IMMIGRATION AND JUSTICE CENTER, COVID-19 RESPONSE FUND, KOVLER CENTER, THE HEARTLAND ALLIANCES' RESEARCH AND POLICY DIVISION, THE GET MY PAYMENT ILLINOIS PROJECT, AND GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
$8,628,5822022 The Chicago Community TrustGeneral operating support. Support for Marjorie Kovler Center General Fund. Support for READI Chicago, READI Chicago and North Lawndale Collaborative. Support for implementation of READI Chicago (covers the period 7/1/21-9/30/21). Support for READI Chicago – to provide transitional employment and supportive services to adults at risk of violence in Chicago in order to secure full-term employment. Support for READI Chicago: this represents a partial contribution of the $2,500,000 needed to cover the first 6 months of the program year. Supporting clinical services for refugees, mental health, and the homeless. Contribution to the Vital Bridges program within Heartland Alliance Health, in support of the National Immigration Justice Center Legal Services Programs. Support of services to recent Afghan arrivals by refugee services. In support of Heartland Alliance's Research and Policy Division Policy coalition leadership, from the Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust.
$8,028,2982023 The Chicago Community Trustsupport for Kovler Center, General Operating Support, support for expenses between July-December 2023: support for READI Chicago?s portion of the North Lawndale Collaborative, General Fund, Day 1 Families Fund, to support health and mental health services, Program support for the National Immigrant Justice Center, for pro se asylum workshops., For the National Immigrant Justice Center., For the National Immigration Justice Center.
$6,586,8002022 Ubi Charitable IncProgram Support
$6,586,8002021 Ubi Charitable IncProgram Support
$5,596,5422021 The Chicago Community TrustTO SUPPORT READI CHICAGO WORK, EMERGENCY AID TO DISPLACED AFGHAN FAMILIES, AFGHAN RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM, GENERAL FUND, DIRECT CLINICAL SERVICES, RACIAL HEALING CIRCLES, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION JUSTICE CENTER, LEGAL SERVICES, COLOR OF WEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE, GET MY PAYMENT ILLINOIS PROJECT (PHASE LL), CHICAGO ASSET BUILDING FOR CHILDREN INITIATIVE (CHICAGO ABC'S) LEVER FOR CHANGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CHALLENGE APPLICATION, HEARTLAND ALLIANCE'S RESEARCH, POLICY DIVISION POLICY COALITION LEADERSHIP, AND GENERAL OPERATIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING SERVICES THAT PROMOTE WELLBEING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OR AGING ADULTS
$5,125,9022024 The Chicago Community TrustGeneral support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
$3,137,2502021 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor grant recipient's exempt purposes
$2,695,0002022 Robert R Mccormick FoundationFOR THE INDIVIDUALIZED PLACEMENT AND SUPPORT PROGRAM, READI AND READI FOR REENTRY
$2,500,0002022 The Bezos Day One FundThe Bezos Day One Fund announced the fifth annual Day 1 Families Fund leadership awards. These 40 recipients from 26 states and Puerto Rico will receive immediate donations totaling $123.45 million to continue their work to help families move from unsheltered homelessness and shelters to permanent housing with the services they require to achieve stability.
$2,263,6002023 Ubi Charitable IncProgram Support
$1,850,0002021 Robert R Mccormick FoundationREADI 2.0, READI AND READI FOR REENTRY PROGRAMS
$1,805,9722020 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor grant recipient's exempt purposes
$1,646,7002020 Ubi Charitable IncProgram Support
$1,500,0002020 Arie and Ida Crown MemorialPROGRAM SUPPORT
$1,000,0002023 Oak FoundationTo promote the human rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, particularly those deprived of their liberty in immigration detention, through support to the National Immigration Justice Centre, a programme of Heartland Alliance.
$840,4802023 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor grant recipient's exempt purposes
$800,5002023 Jpmorgan Chase FoundationIN SUPPORT OF CREATING ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND CAREER PATHWAYS
$800,0002023 Robert R Mccormick FoundationREADI CHICAGO
$700,0002023 Pritzker Family Foundation C/o Pritzker GroupSUPPORT FOR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
$700,0002021 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.GENERAL
$700,0002020 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.GENERAL
$600,0002020 The Ford FoundationCore support for the National Immigrant Justice Center to ensure access to justice and human rights protections for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
$582,5402020 U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc.Agency payments
$509,7372024 Resurrection ProjectImmigration Legal and Support Services

All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

  • Total Grant Value: $41,795,890
  • Number of Grants: 122
  • Number of Recipients: 59

Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

AmountYearFunderSubject
$1,843,7002020 Heartland Human Care Services IncSee Part IV
$1,766,0342020 North Lawndale Employment NetworkSee Part IV
$1,710,4352023 Heartland Human Care Services IncTO PROVIDE SERVICES IN GET MY PAYMENT ILLINOIS PROGRAM.
$1,633,0662020 Centers for New Horizons IncSee Part IV
$1,630,1022023 North Lawndale Employment NetworkTO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE TRANSITIONAL JOBS AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TARGETED TO THOSE AT RISK FOR GUN VIOLENCE.
$1,628,1342023 UcanTO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE TRANSITIONAL JOBS AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TARGETED TO THOSE AT RISK FOR GUN VIOLENCE.
$1,526,1632021 Heartland Human Care Services IncSEE PART IV
$1,429,9252021 North Lawndale Employment NetworkSEE PART IV
$1,340,4422022 Heartland Human Care Services Inc
$1,307,0312021 Centers for New Horizons IncSEE PART IV
$1,264,9792022 Centers for New Horizons Inc
$1,257,1192022 North Lawndale Employment Network
$1,171,4792023 Centers for New Horizons IncTO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE TRANSITIONAL JOBS AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TARGETED TO THOSE AT RISK FOR GUN VIOLENCE.
$1,018,5112022 Institute for Nonviolence Chicago
$1,015,7362020 Institute for Nonviolence ChicagoSee Part IV
$884,1552024 North Lawndale Employment NetworkTo provide innovative transitional jobs and cogitive behavioral targeted to those at risk
$852,1102023 Institute for Nonviolence ChicagoTO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE TRANSITIONAL JOBS AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TARGETED TO THOSE AT RISK FOR GUN VIOLENCE.
$835,0282024 Heartland Human Care Services IncTo provide services in "get my pymt" Illinois program
$809,8472022 Ucan
$778,8422021 Institute for Nonviolence ChicagoSEE PART IV
$649,9972024 UcanTo provide innovative transitional jobs and cognitive behvioral targeted to those at risk
$586,3432020 UcanSee Part IV
$554,2362020 Lawndale Christian Legal CenterSee Part IV
$478,0972024 Centers for New Horizons IncTo provide innovative transitional jobs and cognitive behvioral targeted to those at risk
$473,5302024 Institute for Nonviolence ChicagoTo provide innovative transitional jobs and cognitive behvioral targeted to those at risk