How much does Healthy Communities Foundation give?

Healthy Communities Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $9,426,476 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 96 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Healthy Communities Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (22%), Community Improvement (11%).

Who are Healthy Communities Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mujeres Latinas En Accion ($2.1M), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ($1.5M), Alivio Medical Center Inc ($1.5M).

Does Healthy Communities Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Healthy Communities Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Healthy Communities Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.

Where is Healthy Communities Foundation based?

Healthy Communities Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Healthy Communities Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 118
Grants FY2024: 96
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $368,000
Organizations funded a year: 74 to 96; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $117M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Healthy Communities Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $876k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	100	$9.2M	15%
FY2023	96	$7.6M	25%
FY2022	86	$7.8M	16%
FY2021	91	$8.2M	24%
FY2020	74	$8.0M	16%
FY2019	78	$5.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$16MHuman Services$10MCommunity Improvement$5.2MCivil Rights$4.5MYouth Development$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mujeres Latinas En Accion	$2,127,497	6	9%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights	$1,514,700	6	2%
Alivio Medical Center Inc	$1,508,526	6	1%
Enlace Chicago	$1,226,000	6	3%
Pillars Community Health	$1,203,965	6	1%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$1,192,500	6	2%
Esperanza Health Centers	$1,152,000	6	1%
Arab American Family Services	$1,130,500	6	6%
Erie Neighborhood House	$1,129,900	6	2%
Gads Hill Center	$1,128,100	6	2%

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All grantees of Healthy Communities Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mujeres Latinas En Accion	$2,127,497	6	9%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights	$1,514,700	6	2%
Alivio Medical Center Inc	$1,508,526	6	1%
Enlace Chicago	$1,226,000	6	3%
Pillars Community Health	$1,203,965	6	1%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$1,192,500	6	2%
Esperanza Health Centers	$1,152,000	6	1%
Arab American Family Services	$1,130,500	6	6%
Erie Neighborhood House	$1,129,900	6	2%
Gads Hill Center	$1,128,100	6	2%
Build Inc	$1,126,000	6	2%
Equal Hope	$1,026,000	6	16%
Latino Policy Forum	$1,001,761	6	11%
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council	$975,208	6	2%
Youth Crossroads Inc	$870,500	6	13%
Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc	$844,887	6	3%
Latinos Progresando	$827,500	6	5%
Nami Metro-Suburban Inc	$813,460	6	14%
Family Service & Mental Health Center of Cicero	$757,500	6	9%
Chicago Community Foundation	$750,000	2	n/a
Beds Plus Inc	$722,067	6	9%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law	$663,500	6	3%
Michael Reese Health Trust	$625,000	3	1%
Pcc Community Wellness Center	$590,000	6	0%
Family Focus Legacy	$540,000	6	7%
Lawndale Christian Health Center	$530,000	5	0%
Southwest Organizing Project	$505,250	6	1%
Institute for Latino Progress	$483,000	3	1%
El Valor Corporation	$468,200	6	1%
New Moms Inc	$465,250	6	2%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group	$458,068	5	6%
Forefront	$453,500	2	4%
Access Community Health Network	$430,000	4	0%
Erie Family Health Foundation Inc	$430,000	4	9%
Legal Council for Health Justice	$420,000	6	3%
Aging Care Connections	$395,089	6	4%
Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S	$390,000	4	5%
Austin Coming Together	$375,000	6	3%
The Latino Alzheimers and Memory Disorders Alliance	$362,270	6	6%
The West Cook Young Men's Christian Associations Inc	$352,480	6	2%
Chicago Cares Inc	$345,000	4	4%
Housing Forward	$335,000	6	0%
Sarah's Inn	$330,000	6	2%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation	$327,500	6	0%
The Way Back Inn Inc	$309,975	6	4%
Ucan	$307,000	5	0%
Illinois Partners for Human Service	$291,000	6	13%
Loyola University of Chicago	$290,000	5	0%
Beyond Hunger	$289,778	6	2%
Center for Independence through Conductive Education Inc	$280,000	6	2%
Everthrive Illinois	$255,000	4	4%
Paso- West Suburban Action Project	$215,000	4	8%
Sisterhouse	$210,000	6	8%
Taller de Jose	$210,000	6	8%
All Our Childrens Advocacy Center	$200,925	6	6%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$190,500	6	0%
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County	$183,500	6	2%
St Eulalia Church	$175,000	4	n/a
Corazon Community Services	$168,600	2	8%
Borderless Magazine NFP	$165,000	4	11%
Taskforce Prevention and Community Services	$165,000	2	5%
Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP	$160,000	3	2%
Chicago Community and Workers Rightsnfp	$160,000	3	10%
Urban Growers Collective Inc	$155,413	4	2%
Adler University	$153,500	6	0%
The Firehouse Dream Inc	$145,000	4	40%
Illinois Unidos	$140,500	2	38%
Centro Sanar	$130,000	2	8%
Mapscorps	$120,000	4	5%
Equiticity	$111,000	2	6%
Resilience Partners NFP	$110,000	2	2%
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits	$110,000	1	3%
Chi-Care	$110,000	2	6%
Arise Chicago	$105,000	2	2%
Housing Helpers Inc	$103,000	2	9%
Friends of the Parks	$100,000	4	4%
Suburban Primary Health Care Council D/B/A Access to Care	$100,000	2	2%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$100,000	1	0%
University of Chicago	$100,000	1	0%
Yogacare	$98,000	4	22%
Blackroots Alliance	$95,000	2	4%
City Bureau Nfp	$95,000	3	1%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$85,000	2	1%
United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago	$85,000	1	0%
Dions Chicago Dream Inc Nfp	$80,000	2	1%
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Yemba Inc	$75,000	3	12%
Gardeneers	$65,000	2	1%
Scalelit Fka Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition	$64,000	3	5%
Devices 4 the Disabled	$60,000	2	8%
Brave Space Alliance	$50,000	1	2%
Primo Center for Women & Children	$50,000	1	1%
Healing to Action	$50,000	1	3%
New Life Centers of Chicagoland	$50,000	2	0%
The Port Ministries	$50,000	1	5%
REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective	$45,000	1	6%
Warehouse Project & Gallery	$41,000	3	29%
A House in Austin	$40,000	2	9%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$38,125	2	n/a
Black United Fund of Illinois Inc	$36,200	3	1%
Answer Inc	$35,000	1	9%
Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health	$30,000	1	14%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago	$29,000	2	0%
Southwest Collective	$26,000	2	8%
Facing Forward to End Homelessness	$25,000	1	0%
Metropolitan Family Services	$25,000	1	0%
West Side Connector	$25,000	1	4%
Chicago Commons Association	$25,000	1	0%
Telpochcalli Community Education Project	$17,400	3	2%
The Prevention Partnership Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Iskali	$10,000	1	4%
Nehemiah Community Project	$10,000	1	12%
Independent Sector	$10,000	1	0%
National Museum of Mexican Art Fka Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum	$10,000	1	0%
Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics	$6,395	1	1%
The Leadershop	$5,000	1	1%
People Care Inc	$5,000	1	7%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Helping Hand Center	$5,000	1	0%
The Lincoln Academy of Illinois	$4,000	2	1%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$1,850	1	0%
Little Village Environmental Justice Org	$1,554	2	0%
John Howard Association	$1,000	1	0%
Rush University Medical Center	$1,000	1	0%
Midway Ministries	$1,000	1	n/a
Equity and Transformation	$750	1	0%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc	$515	1	0%
Affinity Community Services	$500	1	n/a
Boxing Out Negativity Inc	$300	1	0%
Working Bikes	$250	1	0%
Leadership Greater Chicago	$250	1	0%
Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation	$40	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.

Healthy Communities Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 126.

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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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL115.9× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Circle of Service Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Community Memorial Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Lloyd a Fry 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.

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About Healthy Communities Foundation

How much does Healthy Communities Foundation give?: Healthy Communities Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $9,426,476 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 96 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Healthy Communities Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (22%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Healthy Communities Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mujeres Latinas En Accion ($2.1M), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ($1.5M), Alivio Medical Center Inc ($1.5M).
Does Healthy Communities Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Healthy Communities Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Healthy Communities Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Healthy Communities Foundation based?: Healthy Communities Foundation is based in IL.