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Advocate Aurora Health Inc

To promote and improve the quality and expand the scope and accessibility of affordable health care and health-care related services for the communities we serve.

$506k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$699k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Philanthropy$827kHealth$495kCommunity Improvement$270kHuman Services$118kFood & Nutrition$60kRecreation & Sports$50kCrime & Legal$28kCivil Rights$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $313k
  • $250k+1 grant · $699k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY$699,400
NEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC$100,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$88,350
UCHICAGO MEDICINE$75,000
CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$43,305
FAMU FOUNDATION INC$40,000
MARCH OF DIMES$35,000
CHICAGO UNITED INC$30,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY$15,400
MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE$15,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$15,000
SAFE & SOUND INC$12,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $8k → 6%FAMU FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 13%OSWEGOLAND SENIOR & COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 6%I AM ABEL FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 17%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 83% of Advocate Aurora Health Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Advocate Aurora Health Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$726k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $490k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NW
    NEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +539%
  • BD
    Black Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +264%
  • LG
    LEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO
    2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Chicago Medical Center
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +24%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • MC
    MILWAUKEE COUNTY ZOO
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
2
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
3
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.

Human Services
4
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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5
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
6
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

—
7
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

—
8
Ucm Network Development Foundation

To promote and support, directly or indirectly, by donation, loan or otherwise, the interests and purposes of ingalls memorial hospital and the university of chicago medical center.

Health
9
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
10
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus

The caucus provides a forum through which the chief elected officials of the region cooperatively develop consensus on common public policy issues and multi-jurisdictional challenges. with a foundation of collaboration and consensus-based…

Community Improvement
11
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
12
The Chicago Network Inc

In furtherance of its charitable and educational goals, the Network's activities consist primarily of providing educational opportunities for its members and the public on issues related to the advancement of women in the workplace. As the…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Famu Foundation Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%6%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
15%
7,310/50,261

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
16/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $812,300 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INCChicago Bulls Charities — $50,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Bulls Charities+2 more — $45,000 · PhilanthropyBlack Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc — $100,000 · HealthBlack Directors Health …American Heart Association Inc — $88,350 · HealthAmerican Heart Associat…University of Chicago Medical Center — $75,000 · HealthUniversity of Chicago M…UChicago Medicine Northwest Indiana Inc — $75,000 · HealthUChicago Medicine North…MARCH OF DIMES INC — $42,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $15,000 · HealthNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC — $130,000 · Community ImprovementNEAR WEST S…WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO — $50,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUSIN…HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $8,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $43,305 · OtherAMERICAN CANCE…THE SALVATION ARMY — $35,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION …AMERICAN COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVES — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN COLLE…NURSES ON BOARDS COALITION — $22,500 · OtherNURSES ON BOAR…MILWAUKEE COUNTY ZOO — $20,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE COUN…HUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $15,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FO…CHRISTIAN FAITH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH INC — $10,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERIC…MILWAUKEE FOOD COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · OtherThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $15,000 · OtherThe Guest Hous…Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $9,000 · Other+4 more — $26,350 · Other+4 moreFAMU FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $15,000 · Human ServicesOSWEGOLAND SENIORS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesI AM ABEL FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Human ServicesEQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE — $7,500 · Human ServicesHOMETOWN HEROES INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO — $45,000 · Public BenefitSafe & Sound Inc — $27,500 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$907,300Health$395,850Community Improvement$188,000Other$246,155Human Services$123,500Public Benefit$45,000Crime & Legal$27,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $812,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC — $130,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBlack Directors Health Equity Agenda Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $88,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUChicago Medicine Northwest Indiana Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetChicago Bulls Charities — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO — $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $42,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO UNITED — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNURSES ON BOARDS COALITION — $22,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOSWEGOLAND SENIORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE FOOD COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI AM ABEL FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHISPANIC PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOMETOWN HEROES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $6,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRevitalize Milwaukee Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Waukesha County Commu…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Green Bay Packers Fou…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Greater Green Bay Com…Baird Foundation IncOtto Bremer TrustBrewers Community Fou…Anon Charitable Trust
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust

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 Advocate Aurora Health Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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