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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITYHEALTH | $1,285,919 |
| MOBILE CARE CHICAGO | $1,038,913 |
| DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION | $975,606 |
| FAMILY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC | $595,853 |
| WILL-GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC | $584,551 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $533,083 |
| CHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER | $460,385 |
| SARAH BUSH LINCOLN DENTAL SERVICES | $440,658 |
| FENIX FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $341,838 |
| THE ARK | $329,535 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC | $292,287 |
| TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC | $236,333 |
| INDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOC CHAR | $183,961 |
| CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CHRISTIAN HEALTH C | $163,690 |
| CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $162,134 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DHDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION5× · 2019–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +72% · 26% of their budget
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinic6× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +93% · 26% of their budget
- WGWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC5× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +493%
Funded once
- HPHUMBOLT PARK HEALTH CARE-A-VANone grant, 2024 · $112k
- IAINDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCone grant, 2023 · $91k
- AOAZZARELLI OUTREACH CLINICone grant, 2020 · $27k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Providing reliable, accessible, high quality medical services to the most vunerable people in our community.
Family Christian Health Center was organized to provide primary health and dental care to the medically underserved in the greater Harvey, Illinois area. Also to provide primary health care to Lynwood and Dolton.
Community health nfp is an illinois not-for-profit organization created on april 8, 1992, to provide free medical care to those who are medically uninsured and economically disadvantaged.
Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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.
To provide health care to low-income persons in the community who do not have health insurance through disease prevention, continuity of care, and active follow-up, we can prmote the health and well-being of the community.
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
Dedicated to providing access to affordable, compassionate, high quality health care for all.
To improve the health and well-being of the diverse communities we serve by providing high-quality, equitable healthcare to people of all ages.
We provide high quality, patient centered health care that is respectful, compassionate and accessible to all members of our community.
The organization provides quality and accessible health care to underserved communties and a pateint centered model of care to empower communities towards wellness.
Montgomery county free clinic, inc. offers high-quality medical and dental care and health promotion and disease prevention services to residents of montgomery county who lack insurance and would otherwise go without basic health care. to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Women's Health Center and the most unlike its peers is The Port Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Fenix Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEW SONG HEALTH CENTER BOLINGBROOK CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sostento Inc ↗
- Who funds The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ↗
- Who funds TUTORING ENGLISH TO ADVANCE CHANGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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