· Public charity
Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids/Chicago Inc
The organization raises funds to award grants in support of chicago and illinois metropolitan hiv/aids service agencies that provide direct service, preventative education and outreach to people who are hiv positive, living with aids or at risk for infection.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION FIGHTING AIDS/CHICAGO INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $195,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $200,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE | $69,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SIDE HELP CENTER | $16,000 |
| ASCENSION ALEXIAN BROTHERS HOUSING AND HEALTH ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| LEGAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| YOUTH OUTLOOK | $15,000 |
| MOTHER AND CHILD ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| TEST POSITIVE AWARE NETWORK | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO HOUSE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NMNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare Group2× · 2023–2024 · $138k · revenue +10%
University of Chicago7× · 2018–2024 · $133k · revenue +52%- LCLegal Council for Health Justice7× · 2018–2024 · $113k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UHUI HEALTH COMMUNITY CLINIC NETWORK2× · 2020–2021 · $20k
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundationone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +9%- CBCHICAGO BLACK GAY MENS CAUCUSgraduated4× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +335%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
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…
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
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…
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.
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…
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…
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Howard Brown Health Center provides a comprehensive array of healthcare and social services to a broad community. In addition to healthcare services, HBHC also conducts behavioral and clinical research in a variety of areas that impact…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Alliance Health and the most unlike its peers is South Side Help Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
- Who funds TPA NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Mother and Child Alliance ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTLOOK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds The CORE Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ascension Health Alliance ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIDE HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BLACK GAY MENS CAUCUS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: AIDS Foundation of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Pritzker Family Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Howard Brown Health Center · Center for Housing and Health · Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago · The Mac AIDS 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 Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids/Chicago Inc 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.
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.