· Private foundation
Healthy Communities Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $995k
- $50k–250k73 grants · $8.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $368k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOREFRONT | $368,000 |
| ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $220,250 |
| GADS HILL CENTER | $220,000 |
| INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK | $220,000 |
| ENLACE CHICAGO | $220,000 |
| MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION | $220,000 |
| ALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER | $220,000 |
| ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES | $220,000 |
| BUILD INC | $220,000 |
| BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $220,000 |
| ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER | $220,000 |
| LATINOS PROGRESANDO | $220,000 |
| PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $212,965 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST | $200,000 |
| EQUAL HOPE | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $10.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
112 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 15 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MLMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +97%
- ICILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +497%
- AMALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +61%
Funded once
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK LTDone grant, 2020 · $101k
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -50%
University of Chicagoone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +21%
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.
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…
How this is measured
130 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. 130 of the 167 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GADS HILL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Equal Hope ↗
- Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
- Who funds NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE & MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF CICERO ↗
- Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds EL VALOR CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
- Who funds AGING CARE CONNECTIONS ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Healthy Communities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Healthy Communities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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