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Foundation for Health Enhancement at a glance

· Private foundation

Foundation for Health Enhancement

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$230kHousing & Shelter$85kRecreation & Sports$42kReligion$30kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$10kEducation$8k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISTA AFYA COMMUNITY CARE NFP$15,000
EXPERIENCES THAT MATTER FOUNDATION$15,000
GLASA - GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSN$12,000
FDN FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES$10,000
MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK$10,000
LORENZO'S HOUSE$10,000
SECOND SENSE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $30k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LORENZO'S HOUSE: $10k → 14%LORENZO'S HOUSE: $10k → 14%SISTERHOUSE: $10k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$327k · 11 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$327k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+9%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GL
    GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +92%
  • SS
    SECOND SENSE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • ON
    OFFSHOOTZ NFP
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • SA
    Saint Anthony Hospital
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • IW
    INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50%
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
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
2
House of the Good Shepherd

House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…

Human Services
3
Care for Friends

Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our "no questions asked" policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows us…

Human Services
4
Renaissance Social Services Inc

Renaissance Social Services (RSSI) is a unique organization that connects those in need with housing that is safe, quality and affordable. After helping clients attain housing RSSI provides them with comprehensive, flexible, client focused…

Human Services
5
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
6
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
7
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
8
Chi-Care

Chi-Care is an organization that provides food, water and shelter help for Chicagolands homeless and extremely needy. What makes Chi-Care a unique organization is the fact that they go directly to the needy and the areas in need. They…

Human Services
9
Fenix Family Health Center

To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.

Health
10
Community Supportive Living Systems

To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Holy Family Villa

For seniors who are unable to live alone, Catholic Charities provided fully licensed nursing home with a round-the-clock nursing staff. The Home offered physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social services, pastoral…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Offshootz Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · HealthGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATIONSISTA AFYA COMMUNITY CARE NFP: $30,000 · HealthSISTA AFYA COMMUNITY CARE NFPCOMPASS TO CARE: $30,000 · HealthCOMPASS TO CAREFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES: $20,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCE…Saint Anthony Hospital: $10,000 · HealthSaint Anthony HospitalL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $10,000 · HealthL'ARCHE CHICAGO INCMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMOBILE CARE FOUNDATIONFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $10,000 · HealthFamily Health Partnership ClinicDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $40,000 · OtherDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORKSECOND SENSE: $40,000 · OtherSECOND SENSEINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · OtherINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CH…LAKEVIEW SHELTER INC: $10,000 · OtherLAKEVIEW SHELTER INCST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $7,500 · OtherST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOISCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE…LA CASA NORTE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTENORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SIDE HOUSING …REFUGEEONE: $30,000 · ReligionLORENZO'S HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesEXPERIENCES THAT MATTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOFFSHOOTZ NFP: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$162,000Other$107,500Housing & Shelter$75,000Religion$30,000Human Services$30,000Philanthropy$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND SENSE: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSISTA AFYA COMMUNITY CARE NFP: $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOMPASS TO CARE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLORENZO'S HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSaint Anthony Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERHOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Chicago Community…George M Eisenberg Fo…Washington Square Hea…Helen V Brach Foundat…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Northwestern Memorial…United Way of Metropo…Grant Hospital of Chi…Chicago Board of Trad…Goldenberg Max Tw M G…WP & HB White Foundat…The Coleman Foundatio…
The Chicago Community TrustIL21.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Washington Square Health Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundation · Chicago Board of Trade Foundation · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc

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 Foundation for Health Enhancement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Health Enhancement. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Foundation for Health Enhancement?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for Health Enhancement through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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-PF 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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