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Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics

The association was formed to help strengthen and grow illinois free and charitable clinics and to help clinics move effectively into the future, connect patients with clinics and help stakeholder organizations who wish to work with or help clinics.

$8.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$162,134
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,285,919
Organizations funded a year
5 to 27
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$8.3M17%
FY202427$6.1M19%
FY202324$6.2M54%
FY20228$173k13%
FY20215$220k80%
FY202018$435k28%
FY201916$308kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$19MHuman Services$1.6MReligion$431kEducation$63kHousing & Shelter$48kFood & Nutrition$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dupage Health Coalition$2,799,170526%
Family Health Partnership Clinic$1,888,477626%
Will Grundy Medical Clinic$1,432,754524%
The Night Ministry$1,389,30365%
Chicago Women's Health Center$1,340,098527%
Community Health Care Clinic$989,855610%
Fenix Family Health Center$890,011415%
Tri City Health Partnership$731,747523%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic$371,456517%
New Song Health Center Bolingbrook Christian Health Center$223,418433%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dupage Health Coalition$2,799,170526%
Family Health Partnership Clinic$1,888,477626%
Will Grundy Medical Clinic$1,432,754524%
The Night Ministry$1,389,30365%
Chicago Women's Health Center$1,340,098527%
Community Health Care Clinic$989,855610%
Fenix Family Health Center$890,011415%
Tri City Health Partnership$731,747523%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic$371,456517%
New Song Health Center Bolingbrook Christian Health Center$223,418433%
Chicago Dental Society Foundation$167,13421%
Sostento Inc$165,00027%
The Port Ministries$144,201310%
Aurora Christian Healthcare$100,8794n/a
Norma Jean Sanders Free Clinic$84,6153n/a
Mosque Community Nurses of Chicagoland$48,9622n/a
Housing Forward$48,39320%
Champaign County Christian Health Center$39,550318%
The Ark$29,25020%
Azzarelli Outreach Clinic$26,5001n/a
Tutoring English to Advance Change$25,04015%
Lisieux Pastoral Center$25,0001n/a
Mercy to Mankind Clinic Nfp$22,500143%
Mission Possible$12,500111%
Norwegian American Hospital Foundation$11,90011%
Indian American Medical Association Il Charitable Foundation Inc$11,00021%
Kendall County Community Food Pantry Inc$10,00020%
Islamic Foundation North$10,0002n/a
Hermes Clinic$5,0001n/a

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDupage Health Coalition: $2,799,170 over 5y, 26% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $1,888,477 over 6y, 26% of budgetWill Grundy Medical Clinic: $1,432,754 over 5y, 24% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $1,389,303 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetChicago Women's Health Center: $1,340,098 over 5y, 27% of budgetCommunity Health Care Clinic: $989,855 over 6y, 10% of budgetFenix Family Health Center: $890,011 over 4y, 15% of budgetTri City Health Partnership: $731,747 over 5y, 23% of budgetOld Irving Park Community Clinic: $371,456 over 5y, 17% of budgetNew Song Health Center Bolingbrook Christian Health Center: $223,418 over 4y, 33% of budgetChicago Dental Society Foundation: $167,134 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSostento Inc: $165,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetThe Port Ministries: $144,201 over 3y, 10% of budgetHousing Forward: $48,393 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChampaign County Christian Health Center: $39,550 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Ark: $29,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTutoring English to Advance Change: $25,040 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMercy to Mankind Clinic Nfp: $22,500 over 1y, 43% of budgetMission Possible: $12,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetNorwegian American Hospital Foundation: $11,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIndian American Medical Association Il Charitable Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKendall County Community Food Pantry Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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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 22.

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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.

Visiting Nurse Associ…Direct ReliefAmericares Foundation…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Illinois State Dental…AbbVie FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…National Association …The Dupage Community …United Way of Metropo…The Bersted FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…
Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna FoundationIL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Direct Relief · Americares Foundation Inc · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Illinois State Dental Society Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

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 Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics

How much does Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics give?
Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics reported 29 grants totaling $8,327,719 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (89%), Human Services (7%), Religion (2%).
Who are Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Dupage Health Coalition ($2.8M), Family Health Partnership Clinic ($1.9M), Will Grundy Medical Clinic ($1.4M).
Does Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation, Direct Relief, Americares Foundation Inc.
Where is Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics based?
Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics is based in IL.

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 49 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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