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Alliancechicago

ALLIANCECHICAGO is the continuation of an existing effort to bring together charitable federally qualified health centers (fqhcs) to collaboratively pursue their charitable missions by better serving their disadvantaged patients with improved health care, better information, coordination, division of labor, and efficiency.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$268k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$7.7MEmployment$41kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $623k
  • $250k+1 grant · $268k
$19,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$268,433
HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK OF FLORIDA INC$170,000
ILLINOIS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION$162,891
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$96,182
TAPESTRY 360 HEALTH$74,150
FRIEND HEALTH$70,213
PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER$50,000
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER$46,204
NEAR NORTH HEALTH SERVICE CORP$34,500
ALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC$19,200
HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH$15,350
SETTLEMENT HEALTH & MEDICAL SERVICES INC$13,153
ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS$11,583
EDUCATIONAL HEALTH CENTER OF WYOMINGUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$9,750
HOWARD BROWN HEALTH$9,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%POWER TO DECIDE: $13k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
IA
CA
CO
KY
MD
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Alliancechicago’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 84%.

Alliancechicagolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 33 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
15

Total granted

$7.3M
$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

94%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceHuman ServicesReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IP
    Illinois Primary Health Care Association
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +118%
  • EF
    Erie Family Health Center Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $862k · revenue +74%
  • HC
    HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK OF FLORIDA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $669k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MC
    Macoupin County Health Department
    one grant, 2023 · $130k
  • BC
    BELOVED COMMUNITY FAMILY WELLNESS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $84k · revenue +31%
  • SI
    SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
2
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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3
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
4
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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5
Charles River Community Health Inc

To partner with individuals and families so they can thrive and lead healthier lives by delivering the comprehensive, integrated, and equitable primary healthcare that matters most to them.

Health
6
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
7
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
8
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
9
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
10
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
11
Interior Community Health Center

Our mission is to provide universal access to excellent primary health care for patients of all ages, stages of life, and backgrounds.

Health
12
Community Healthcare Network

Chn provides a broad range of health services including but not limited to primary and preventative care, and mental health services to a largely medically underserved population.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hill Country Community Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Erie Family Health Center Inc: $862,112 · HealthErie Family Health Center IncHEALTH CHOICE NETWORK OF FLORIDA INC: $669,336 · HealthHEALTH CHOICE NETWORK OF FLORIDA INCFriend Family Health Center Inc: $554,602 · HealthFriend Family Health Center IncNear North Health Service Corporation: $421,143 · HealthNear North Health Service CorporationPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER: $263,000 · HealthPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTERHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $227,039 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTHCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC: $168,303 · HealthSETTLEMENT HEALTH & MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $167,198 · Health+20 more: $559,962 · Health+20 moreIllinois Primary Health Care Association: $1,329,853 · OtherIllinois Primary Health Care AssociationEVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS: $549,940 · OtherEVERTHRIVE ILLINOISEMI ADVISORS LLC: $333,880 · OtherEMI ADVISORS LLCTapestry 360 Health: $224,020 · OtherTapestry 360 HealthMacoupin County Health Department: $130,000 · OtherHoward Brown Health Center: $118,345 · Other+10 more: $310,435 · Other+10 moreNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $423,523 · Social ScienceNorthwestern University: $223,394 · Recreation & SportsUniversity of Chicago: $63,156 · EducationNURSING PRACTICE CORPORATION DBA CAMPUS HEALTH CENTER: $38,274 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF NURSING FACULTY PRACTICE ASSOC INC: $19,370 · EducationJACKSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $82,820 · ReligionCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,750 · Philanthropy
Health$3,892,695Other$2,996,473Social Science$423,523Recreation & Sports$223,394Education$120,800Religion$82,820Philanthropy$13,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIllinois Primary Health Care Association: $1,329,853 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $862,112 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH CHOICE NETWORK OF FLORIDA INC: $669,336 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFriend Family Health Center Inc: $554,602 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS: $549,940 over 4y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $423,523 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNear North Health Service Corporation: $421,143 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER: $263,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $227,039 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTapestry 360 Health: $224,020 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $223,394 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC: $168,303 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSETTLEMENT HEALTH & MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $167,198 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $118,345 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER: $83,535 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJACKSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $82,820 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $73,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $63,156 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Christian Health Center Inc: $40,031 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNURSING PRACTICE CORPORATION DBA CAMPUS HEALTH CENTER: $38,274 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $38,274 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP: $33,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $32,507 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN HUMAN SERVICES FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,917 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $20,163 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER HILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $19,370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF NURSING FACULTY PRACTICE ASSOC INC: $19,370 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPrimeCare Community Health Inc: $19,370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC: $19,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $15,872 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $13,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE: $12,988 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH NETWORK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $12,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY CLINIC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossing Recovery Center: $7,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Delta Dental of Illin…Illinois Children's H…Illinois Primary Heal…United Way of Metropo…Michael Reese Health …Direct ReliefThe Chicago Community…Visiting Nurse Associ…Lloyd a Fry FoundationAIDS Foundation of Ch…University of ChicagoPritzker Family Found…
Delta Dental of Illinois FoundationIL40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation · Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · Illinois Primary Health Care Association · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Michael Reese Health Trust · Direct Relief · The Chicago Community Trust · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · AIDS Foundation of Chicago · University of Chicago · Pritzker Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliancechicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliancechicago. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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