Housing & Homelessness Grants in Illinois

Top housing & homelessness grants in Illinois right now

• Emergency and Transitional Housing Program

  Illinois Department of Human ServicesUp to $5.0Mopen

  The Emergency and Transitional Housing Program provides state funding to non-profit organizations and local governments to offer immediate and compreh...

• CDBG Housing Rehabilitation

  Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic OpportunityUp to $650Kopen

  The CDBG Housing Rehabilitation Program provides grants to low-to-moderate income communities in Illinois to improve housing, rehabilitate, and retrof...

• Rental Housing Support Program

  Illinois Housing Development Authorityopen

  The Rental Housing Support Program (RHS) promotes permanent housing by funding rent subsidies for extremely and severely low-income households in Illi...

• Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit

  Illinois Housing Development Authorityopen

  The Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit (IAHTC) is a state tax credit program administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) to ...

• HOME-ARP Non-Congregate Shelter Development

  Illinois Housing Development Authorityopen

  This program utilizes HOME-ARP funds, administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), for the acquisition and development of non-co...

• Mental Health Permanent Supportive Housing Grants

  Illinois Department of Human Servicesopen

  The Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) program, administered by the IDHS Division of Mental Health, provides funding to certified community organizati...

• Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program (S811)

  Illinois Housing Development Authorityopen

  Provides federal funds, administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), to subsidize rental housing that offers access to supportiv...

What counts as a housing & homelessness grant in Illinois

We surface opportunities matching housing & homelessness-related keywords whose geography includes Illinois (statewide, regional, or county-level grants serving Illinois-based organizations). The keyword set:

Internal program language often differs from how funders tag their grants. AI mission-fit search (available after signup) catches the conceptual matches that exact-keyword filtering misses — useful in Illinois where program names vary by region.

Where Illinois housing & homelessness grants come from

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov opportunities open to Illinois-based organizations and thematically aligned with housing & homelessness.
• Illinois state portal — state-administered housing & homelessness programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
• Foundations — community foundations and private foundations giving in Illinois for housing & homelessness work, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated directories.
• Corporate giving — corporate philanthropy programs that fund housing & homelessness work in Illinois.