Recipient of federal assistance · CHICAGO, IL

LADDER UP

LADDER UP received $623K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions, +9.9% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $3M. Its largest awarding agency was Internal Revenue Service ($623K).

Assistance · FY2026
$623K
New awards
2
Actions
3
Since FY2021
$3M
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Location
CHICAGO, IL
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Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 309KFY2021
  2. 471.9KFY2022
  3. 419.1KFY2023
  4. 651.5KFY2024
  5. 567.1KFY2025
  6. 623KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$623K100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 21.009 · Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program$423K68%
  2. 21.008 · Low Income Taxpayer Clinics$200K32%

Awarding agencies

  1. Internal Revenue Service$623K100%
    Department of the Treasury

Largest awards

  1. PURPOSE: THE VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE (VITA) GRANT WAS ESTABLISHED AS A MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR ORGANIZATIONS…$423K
    21.009 · Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program· Internal Revenue Service· Project grant· Apr 10, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026· 26VITA0319
  2. THE PURPOSE OF THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC LITC GRANT IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO, 1. A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED LAW…$200K
    21.008 · Low Income Taxpayer Clinics· Internal Revenue Service· Project grant· Feb 5, 2026 – Apr 8, 2026· 26-LITC0139-01

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.8M (7 subawards)

1 prime

  1. IL DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES$1.8M100%
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 7 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.8M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.