Illinois · 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.
- $28M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $27M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $203,302
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,328,124
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations AIDS Foundation of Chicago funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $27M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $24M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $21M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $22M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $22M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $16M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $12M | 3% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $11M | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Housing and Health | $64,356,715 | 9 | 53% |
| The Hektoen Institute of Medicine | $20,257,525 | 9 | 10% |
| Chicago House & Social Service Agency | $7,806,534 | 9 | 13% |
| Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin | $5,210,802 | 9 | 28% |
| Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House | $4,771,672 | 9 | 20% |
| Christian Community Health Center | $4,603,035 | 9 | 3% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $4,492,591 | 9 | n/a |
| Mother and Child Alliance | $4,410,881 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Chicago Medical Center | $3,523,728 | 9 | 0% |
| Heartland Alliance Health | $3,189,802 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 91 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($714k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
AIDS Foundation of Chicago supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About AIDS Foundation of Chicago
- How much does AIDS Foundation of Chicago give?
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago reported 46 itemized grants totaling $27,082,497, out of $28,349,433 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does AIDS Foundation of Chicago fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Housing & Shelter (43%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are AIDS Foundation of Chicago's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Housing and Health ($64M), The Hektoen Institute of Medicine ($20M), Chicago House & Social Service Agency ($7.8M).
- Does AIDS Foundation of Chicago fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as AIDS Foundation of Chicago?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is AIDS Foundation of Chicago based?
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago is based in IL.
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