How much does Howard Brown Health Center give?

Howard Brown Health Center reported 6 grants totaling $668,737 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Howard Brown Health Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Education (19%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Howard Brown Health Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Vida Inc ($1.8M), University of Chicago ($1.2M), McDermott Center ($1.0M).

Does Howard Brown Health Center fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Brown Health Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Pritzker Family Foundation.

Where is Howard Brown Health Center based?

Howard Brown Health Center is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

Illinois · Public charity

Howard Brown Health Center

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 wellness in the community.

$669k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

Read the full brief

Median grant, FY2025: $130,867
Largest grant, FY2025: $149,712
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 14; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $188M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Howard Brown Health Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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
FY2025still arriving	6	$669k	0%
FY2024	9	$1.1M	22%
FY2023	11	$1.2M	27%
FY2022	14	$1.7M	29%
FY2021	14	$1.9M	21%
FY2020	13	$1.2M	46%
FY2019	7	$489k	43%
FY2018	5	$544k	40%

100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$5.8MEducation$1.8MHuman Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$393kCivil Rights$29kReligion$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kYouth Development$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Project Vida Inc	$1,847,721	9	4%
University of Chicago	$1,235,152	6	0%
McDermott Center	$1,029,035	6	1%
Loyola University of Chicago	$853,759	5	0%
Center on Halsted	$803,704	7	3%
Tpa Network Incorporated	$432,122	4	5%
Taskforce Prevention and Community Services	$398,867	2	8%
The Thresholds	$385,677	4	0%
Chicago House & Social Service Agency	$270,302	7	1%
The Children's Place Association	$244,632	3	2%

Show all 27 grantees

All grantees of Howard Brown Health Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Project Vida Inc	$1,847,721	9	4%
University of Chicago	$1,235,152	6	0%
McDermott Center	$1,029,035	6	1%
Loyola University of Chicago	$853,759	5	0%
Center on Halsted	$803,704	7	3%
Tpa Network Incorporated	$432,122	4	5%
Taskforce Prevention and Community Services	$398,867	2	8%
The Thresholds	$385,677	4	0%
Chicago House & Social Service Agency	$270,302	7	1%
The Children's Place Association	$244,632	3	2%
Sithub	$237,712	2	18%
Illinois Primary Health Care Association	$203,847	2	1%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$203,307	4	0%
Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House	$201,968	4	2%
University of Chicago Medicine	$168,010	1	n/a
Illinois Public Health Institute	$139,355	2	1%
La Casa Norte	$122,667	3	1%
Our House Therapy Collective	$101,749	1	87%
Ann & Robert Lurie	$64,092	1	n/a
Presence Chicago Hospitals Network	$53,250	1	0%
Chicago Therapy Collective	$45,752	1	n/a
Trans United	$40,000	2	n/a
Alexian Brothers Health System	$39,063	1	0%
Brighter Strategies LLC	$25,000	2	n/a
Street Youth Rise Up	$10,000	1	n/a
AIDS United	$10,000	1	0%
Chicago Women's AIDS Project	$5,379	1	2%

Howard Brown Health Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 21.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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 TrustIL21.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AIDS Foundation of Chicago · Pritzker Family Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids/Chicago Inc · Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago Foundation for Women · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good

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.

Compare Howard Brown Health Center with peer funders

About Howard Brown Health Center

How much does Howard Brown Health Center give?: Howard Brown Health Center reported 6 grants totaling $668,737 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Howard Brown Health Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Education (19%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Howard Brown Health Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Vida Inc ($1.8M), University of Chicago ($1.2M), McDermott Center ($1.0M).
Does Howard Brown Health Center fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Brown Health Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Pritzker Family Foundation.
Where is Howard Brown Health Center based?: Howard Brown Health Center is based in IL.