Illinois · Public charity
Bears Care
To support programs designed to positively impact people in the areas of education, youth athletics, and medical research and health awareness with an emphasis on breast and ovarian cancer.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Itemized grants FY2024
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $520,000
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $797k
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rush University Medical Center | $520,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | $203,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Chicago Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Chicago | $170,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Parks Foundation | $155,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation Ltd | $78,133 | 1 | 2% |
| Youth Guidance | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Build Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Bears Care supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Northwestern University · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · American Society for Radiation Oncology · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bears Care
- How much does Bears Care give?
- Bears Care reported 50 itemized grants totaling $2,584,338, out of $2,814,843 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
- What does Bears Care fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Youth Development (20%), Health (18%).
- Who are Bears Care's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Rush University Medical Center ($520k), Northwestern Memorial Healthcare ($203k), Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ($200k).
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bears Care?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Coleman Foundation Inc, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Bears Care based?
- Bears Care is based in IL.
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