· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
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.
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…
Sinai health system's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves.
Dchc is a primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities we serve.
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…
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
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.
Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…
Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
How this is measured
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization AIDS Foundation of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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