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Advocate Charitable Foundation

See schedule o: to embrace the mission of advocate health care (a non-for-profit family of hospitals and caregivers), cultivate philanthropic partnerships, and increase charitable support of advocate health care's clinical, education and research programs.

$18M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Itemized grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$13M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$111,592
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,817,586
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$206M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Advocate Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$13M0%
FY20238$20M25%
FY20224$7.2M0%
FY20217$25M14%
FY20206$20M0%
FY20197$23M0%
FY20187$15M14%
FY20178$27Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$146MEducation$5.3MPhilanthropy$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp$119,695,61580%
Advocate North Side Health Network$19,709,47181%
Advocate Condell Medical Center$4,825,61480%
Advocate Sherman Hospital$2,797,61070%
Aurora Research Institute LLC$1,887,8282n/a
Advocate Aurora Health Inc$1,083,87921%
Ehs Home Health Care Service Inc$515,07280%
Meridian Hospice$203,77370%
Hispano Care Inc$173,3701n/a
Sherman West Court$38,62220%
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All grantees of Advocate Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp$119,695,61580%
Advocate North Side Health Network$19,709,47181%
Advocate Condell Medical Center$4,825,61480%
Advocate Sherman Hospital$2,797,61070%
Aurora Research Institute LLC$1,887,8282n/a
Advocate Aurora Health Inc$1,083,87921%
Ehs Home Health Care Service Inc$515,07280%
Meridian Hospice$203,77370%
Hispano Care Inc$173,3701n/a
Sherman West Court$38,62220%
Association of Fundraising Professionals -Chicago Chapter$7,50013%
First Look for Charity Foundation$5,57010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Advocate Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAdvocate Health and Hospitals Corp: $119,695,615 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAdvocate North Side Health Network: $19,709,471 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAdvocate Condell Medical Center: $4,825,614 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAdvocate Sherman Hospital: $2,797,610 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAdvocate Aurora Health Inc: $1,083,879 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEhs Home Health Care Service Inc: $515,072 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMeridian Hospice: $203,773 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSherman West Court: $38,622 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation of Fundraising Professionals -Chicago Chapter: $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFirst Look for Charity Foundation: $5,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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About Advocate Charitable Foundation

How much does Advocate Charitable Foundation give?
Advocate Charitable Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $13,100,154, out of $18,018,337 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Advocate Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (96%), Education (4%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Advocate Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp ($120M), Advocate North Side Health Network ($20M), Advocate Condell Medical Center ($4.8M).
Does Advocate Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Advocate Charitable Foundation based?
Advocate Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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