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Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h.

$178M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$56M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.2BCommunity Improvement$145kHuman Services$90kPublic Benefit$29kArts & Culture$24kYouth Development$20kEmployment$17k
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
  • $250k+14 grants · $182M
$309,930
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc$56,161,772
Stanley Manne Children's Research Inst$48,015,081
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc$27,339,350
Stanley Manne Children's Research Inst$14,111,763
Lurie Childrens Pediatric Anesthesia Asc$8,186,602
Lurie Children's Medical Group LLC$7,291,067
Lurie Children's Primary Care LLC$5,622,930
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc$4,052,527
Almost Home Kids$3,611,931
Lurie Children's Health Services LLC$3,447,305
Childrens Hospital of Chicago Med Ctr$2,114,421
Lurie Children's Medical Group LLC$1,285,806
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc$782,348
Lurie Children's Health Services LLC$309,930
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$104,167
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $17.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $3.3M → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $3.0M → 7%Almost Home Kids: $2.8M → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $2.3M → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1.3M → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $803k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $168k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $100k → 7%YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $98k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $91k → 7%Almost Home Kids: $73k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $66k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $60k → 7%Almost Home Kids: $3.6M → 14%Almost Home Kids: $66k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 72% of Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicagolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2B · 22 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
7

Total granted

$1.2B
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PF
    Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $359M · revenue +58%
  • AH
    Almost Home Kids
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +75% · 46% of their budget
  • CH
    Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue -13%
  • ID
    INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • TE
    THE EXECUTIVES' CLUB OF CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
2
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
3
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

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…

Health
6
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
7
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
Childrens Hospital of Illinois Medical Group

To support the mission of osf healthcare system, a catholic integrated health care delivery system, through the provision of quality health care services related to comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for children.

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9
Carle West Physician Group Inc

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
10
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
11
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr15%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr13%98%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
17%
7,549/45,680

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.

05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute — $468,225,589 · HealthStanley Manne Childrens Research InstitutePediatric Faculty Foundation Inc — $358,914,514 · HealthPediatric Faculty Foundation Inc+9 more — $10,968,596 · HealthLurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc — $166,822,432 · OtherLurie Children's Surgical Foun…Lurie Children's Medical Group LLC — $78,536,174 · OtherLurie Children's Medical Group…Lurie Children's Pediatric Anesthesia Associates — $38,244,919 · OtherLurie Children's Pediatric Ane…LURIE CHILDRENS HEALTH SERVICES LLC — $13,072,063 · Other+8 more — $23,551,519 · Other+8 moreAlmost Home Kids — $17,769,908 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $137,000 · PhilanthropyLEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO — $75,000 · Public BenefitTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION — $24,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CARES INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationAustin Coming Together — $5,000 · Education
Health$838,108,699Other$320,227,107Human Services$17,774,908Philanthropy$137,000Public Benefit$75,000Community Improvement$59,000Education$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStanley Manne Childrens Research Institute — $468,225,589 over 8y, 100% of budgetPediatric Faculty Foundation Inc — $358,914,514 over 8y, 24% of budgetLurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc — $166,822,432 over 6y, 81% of budgetLurie Children's Pediatric Anesthesia Associates — $38,244,919 over 6y, 58% of budgetAlmost Home Kids — $17,769,908 over 8y, 46% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center — $8,729,233 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Of Chicago Faculty Practice Plan Inc — $6,972,737 over 4y, 13% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation — $1,168,780 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $773,333 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $137,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO — $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetINNOVATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EXECUTIVES' CLUB OF CHICAGO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION — $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CIVIC FEDERATION — $18,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Coming Together — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Northwestern Memorial…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Chicago Community TrustIL15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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