· Public charity
A Silver Lining Foundation
To provide respectful and equal access to cost-free breast health testing through a network of partnerships with community, advocacy and healthcare organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $509,509 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $569,947 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,438 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $342k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $181,260 |
| ASCENCION SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL | $98,755 |
| ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL | $61,690 |
| ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER | $44,855 |
| WEST SUBURBAN MEDICAL CENTER | $28,869 |
| UCHICAGO MEDICINE ADVENT HEALTH HINSDALE | $19,125 |
| ASCENCION ST FRANCIS | $13,240 |
| PRESENCE ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL | $12,955 |
| MERCY HEALTH (ROCKFORD) | $11,720 |
| ADVOCATE IL MASONIC | $10,965 |
| SWEDISH COVENANT HOSPITAL | $10,580 |
| INGALLS HEALTH SYSTEM | $9,025 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,470 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MSMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $591k · revenue +54%
- SASaint Anthony Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $382k · revenue +25%
- AHADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- AMADVENTIST MIDWEST HEALTH2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +9%
- PSPRESENCE ST JOSEPH HOSPITALone grant, 2025 · $13k
- SCSwedish Covenant Hospital Foundationone grant, 2025 · $6k · revenue -58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of st. elizabeth's hospital is to reveal and embody christ's healing love for all people through our high quality franciscan healthcare ministry.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Endeavor Health Medical Group (EHMG) follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adventist Midwest Health and the most unlike its peers is Roseland Community Hospital Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Presence Central and Suburban Hospitals Network ↗
- Who funds Saint Anthony Hospital ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ↗
- Who funds UCHICAGO MEDICINE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Swedish Covenant Health ↗
- Who funds MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Hospital ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST MIDWEST HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ROSELAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Washington Square Health Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Silver Lining Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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