· Public charity
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
The AIDS Foundation of Chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
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 46 grants below total $27,082,497 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,349,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,266,936 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+18 grants · $24M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR HOUSING & HEALTH | $15,328,124 |
| HEKTOEN INSTITUTE | $1,515,110 |
| CHICAGO HOUSE AND SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY | $954,596 |
| MOTHER AND CHILD ALLIANCE | $753,358 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $568,080 |
| ALEXIAN BROTHERS | $522,485 |
| GREATER FAMILY HEALTH | $513,619 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $422,241 |
| LAKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $392,396 |
| OPEN DOOR CLINIC | $392,088 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $375,570 |
| INNER VOICE INC | $372,999 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF U OF I | $354,100 |
| TEST POSITIVE AWARE NETWORK | $321,749 |
| HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER | $318,889 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those 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 +42% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCenter for Housing and Health9× · 2017–2025 · $64M · revenue +670% · 53% of their budget
- CHCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $7.8M · revenue +237%
- CCChristian Community Health Center9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +93%
Funded once
- AALPHAWOODone grant, 2021 · $350k
- LCLAKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $289k
- VBVITAL BRIDGES INCone grant, 2017 · $263k
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.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Sinai health system's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves.
The organization is committed to the mission of facilitating the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…
The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…
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…
Dchc is a primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities we serve.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
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…
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tca Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Proactive Community Services. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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. 81 of the 100 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 Center for Housing and Health ↗
- Who funds THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR CLINIC OF GREATER ELGIN ↗
- Who funds Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds AGAPE MISSIONS NFP ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL REESE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIDE HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
- Who funds MEN & WOMEN IN PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds McDermott Center ↗
- Who funds ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Life is Work ↗
- Who funds The Inner Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Pritzker Family Foundation · Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Center for Housing and Health
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 AIDS Foundation of Chicago 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.