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Howard Brown Health Center

Howard Brown Health Center provides a comprehensive array of healthcare and social services to a broad community.

$669k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $625k
$130,867
Median grant
1
States reached
$188M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chicago Therapy Collective$149,712
Project VIDA$140,527
TaskForce Prevention and Community Services$130,867
Center on Halsted$110,006
Haymarket Center$93,532
Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House$44,093
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 (FY17–25, $2.6M) 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%Project VIDA: $414k → 14%Project VIDA: $316k → 14%Project VIDA: $215k → 14%Project Vida: $163k → 14%Project VIDA: $141k → 14%Project VIDA: $128k → 14%Project VIDA: $112k → 14%Project VIDA: $96k → 14%Children's Place: $100k → 14%Children's Place Association: $79k → 14%Children's Place Association: $66k → 14%Center on Halsted: $179k → 14%Center on Halsted: $171k → 14%Center on Halsted: $116k → 14%Center on Halsted: $110k → 14%Center on Halsted: $99k → 14%Center on Halsted: $16k → 14%Amita Health Housing: $53k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 18 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -43% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$8.7M
$497k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-43%

Still filing today

89%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PV
    PROJECT VIDA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +43%
  • University of Chicago
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +56%
  • MC
    McDermott Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Chicago Medicine
    one grant, 2021 · $168k
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE THERAPY COLLECTIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $102k · revenue +189% · 87% of their budget
  • AR
    Ann & Robert Lurie
    one grant, 2022 · $64k
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
2
Presence Behavioral Health

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
3
Argus Community Inc

Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…

Health
4
Association House of Chicago

Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…

Human Services
5
Alliancechicago

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…

Health
6
Aids Service Center of Lower Manhattan Inc

Aids service center of lower manhattan, inc., d/b/a alliance for positive change ("alliance") is a not-for-profit community organization founded in 1990 with a central mission of helping low-income new yorkers living with hiv and other…

Health
7
Washington Health Institute

To improve the health of our community by providing holistic, patient-centered, outcomes driven care, support services, and health sciences research to transform the lives of our patients, their families, and underserved communities. we…

Health
8
Lowell Community Health Center Inc

Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…

Health
9
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
10
Health Through Walls Inc

HtW was created to assists prisons in resource poor countries test treat and implement measures to control and stop the spread of contagious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, other STI's, TB, Cholera, COVID-19 and other emerging infectious…

International
11
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
12
Care Alliance

To transform lives by providing exceptional, accessible, and compassionate healthcare experiences for all.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House; the most unlike its peers is Our House Therapy Collective. 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

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

McDermott Center: $1,029,035 · OtherMcDermott CenterTPA NETWORK INCORPORATED: $432,122 · OtherTPA NETWORK INCORPORATEDTASKFORCE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $398,867 · OtherTASKFORCE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY SERVI…THE THRESHOLDS: $385,677 · OtherTHE THRESHOLDSSITHUB: $237,712 · OtherSITHUBIllinois Primary Health Care Association: $203,847 · OtherIllinois Primary Health Care AssociationAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $201,968 · OtherAlexian Brothers Bonaventure HouseUniversity of Chicago Medicine: $168,010 · Other+6 more: $190,223 · Other+6 morePROJECT VIDA INC: $1,847,721 · Human ServicesPROJECT VIDA INCCenter on Halsted: $803,704 · Human ServicesCenter on HalstedTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $244,632 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION+1 more: $53,250 · Human ServicesUniversity of Chicago: $1,235,152 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $853,759 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHIC…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $270,302 · HealthCHICAGO H…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $203,307 · HealthAnn & Rob…Illinois Public Health Institute: $139,355 · HealthIllinois …OUR HOUSE THERAPY COLLECTIVE: $101,749 · HealthOUR HOUSE…ALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM: $39,063 · HealthLA CASA NORTE: $122,667 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,247,461Human Services$2,949,307Education$2,098,911Health$753,776Housing & Shelter$122,667

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 budgetPROJECT VIDA INC: $1,847,721 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,235,152 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMcDermott Center: $1,029,035 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $853,759 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $803,704 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetTPA NETWORK INCORPORATED: $432,122 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTASKFORCE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $398,867 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $385,677 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $270,302 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $244,632 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSITHUB: $237,712 over 2y, 18% of budgetIllinois Primary Health Care Association: $203,847 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $203,307 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $201,968 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetIllinois Public Health Institute: $139,355 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $122,667 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOUR HOUSE THERAPY COLLECTIVE: $101,749 over 1y, 87% of budgetPresence Chicago Hospitals Network: $53,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM: $39,063 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN'S AIDS PROJECT: $5,379 over 1y, 1.6% 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…AIDS Foundation of Ch…Pritzker Family Found…Broadway Caresequity …United Way of Metropo…Design Industries Fou…Public Health Institu…Chicago Foundation fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for Good
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Howard Brown Health Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard Brown Health Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 27 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 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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