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Top 25 Shelter and housing nonprofits based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 66 shelter and housing nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,890 professional contacts across them, including 795 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers shelter and housing nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest shelter and housing nonprofits based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Safe Haven Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives and communities in the Chicagoland area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “All Chicago Making Homelessness History's mission is to unite our community and its resources to ensure that a home is a reality for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1975, NHS of Chicago is a nonprofit, HUD-certified housing and counseling organization committed to helping homeowners and strengthening neighborhoods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission Statement: The Night Ministry is a Chicago-based organization whose mission is to provide human connection, housing support, and health care to those who are unhoused or…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Casa Norte’s mission is to serve youth and families confronting homelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Believing that everyone has a right to safe, clean and affordable housing, Deborah's Place has been breaking the cycle of homelessness for women in Chicago since 1985.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depaul USA believes that everyone should have a place to call home and a stake in their community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chicago is a unique city, full of grit, determination and possibility-and we're excited to be a part of it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Franciscan Outreach is a leading provider of homeless services in Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe every young person should have the support they need to be defined by their potential, not their circumstances.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 30 years Family Rescue has been dedicated to eliminating domestic violence in the Chicago community by providing comprehensive support services and shelter to victims of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pacific Garden Mission is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois, USA” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MYSI Corporation was founded in 1965 with a focus on eradicating homelessness by providing shelter care, temporary housing and community-based clinical case management support for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sarah’s Circle provides a full continuum of services for women, including housing, life necessities, and supportive services to help them permanently end their homelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1983, HOW has been a leader in permanent solutions to homelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ReloShare builds technology that helps social service agencies secure safe, dignified accommodations for people in crisis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission To expand access to quality affordable housing through preservation and development, thoughtful design, and the provision of significant and targeted supportive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Claretian Associates is a nonprofit organization in South Chicago, dedicated to affordable housing and social services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Renaissance is a leader in Chicago‘s response to homelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ReVive Center for Housing and Healing is the trusted not-for-profit organization that is committed to solving homelessness in Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Addressing Homelessness, Providing Shelter, Accepting People, Finding Cornerstone Community Outreach (CCO), an Illinois not-for-profit organization, was founded in 1989 to raise…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Featherfist offers a complete continuum of proven programs and compassionate services that homeless veterans, men, women, children and persons with physical and mental health…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Holsten Human Capital Development, NFP (HHCD) is a nonprofit, charitable organization with the mission to strengthen families living in affordable, mixed-income and subsidized…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of the Primo Center is to empower women and children to become productive, responsible and independent members of their communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “North Side Housing and Supportive Services is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1983, serving individuals who are homeless or formerly homeless.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: shelter and housing nonprofits. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names shelter and housing nonprofits.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of shelter and housing nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name shelter and housing nonprofits. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Shelter and housing nonprofits based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 66 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among shelter and housing nonprofits, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “shelter and housing nonprofits”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names shelter and housing nonprofits), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among shelter and housing nonprofits, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 795 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Shelter and housing nonprofits by metro in the United States
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Los Angeles90
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in New York82
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Atlanta66
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Chicago66
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Washington54
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in San Francisco47
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Dallas44
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Philadelphia41
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Houston39
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Portland38
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Seattle36
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Denver34
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Phoenix34
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Minneapolis33
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Boston32
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in San Diego31
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Austin29
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Baltimore27
- Shelter and housing nonprofits in Sacramento25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names shelter and housing nonprofits, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many shelter and housing nonprofits are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 66 shelter and housing nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
A Safe Haven Foundation, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most shelter and housing nonprofits?
Los Angeles leads with 90 headquartered companies, followed by New York (82) and Atlanta (66).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 795 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 66 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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