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Memorial Health System

To improve lives and build stronger communities through better health.

$552k
Granted FY2019
16
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$728kPhilanthropy$585kCommunity Improvement$219kYouth Development$173kHousing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$30kInternational$29kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2019 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $512,292, the rows itemized in this filing. The $552,481 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,189 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k8 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $408k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$674M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC$199,011
KIDZEUM$100,000
SIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$58,871
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$50,000
GREATER SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$24,500
CONTACT MINISTRIES$10,000
HELPING HANDS$10,000
CENTRAL IL FOOD BANK$10,000
SPARC$9,275
MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$8,135
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$7,500
WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,000
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$5,000
FAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD$5,000
MERCY COMMUNITIES INC$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 11%EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Memorial Health System’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 83%.

Memorial Health Systemlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$1.7M
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+34%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $299k · revenue +11%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $160k · revenue +56%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • HS
    Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -1%
  • IS
    Illinois State Dental Society Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • SU
    Springfield Urban League Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +34%
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
Community Shares of Illinois

Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…

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2
Central Illinois Service Access Inc

Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.

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3
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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4
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
5
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
6
Live Free Chicago

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…

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7
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Springfield

Improving economic security through financial education and coaching. Organization vision statement: Financial Freedom for All.

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8
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
9
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
10
Helping Hands of Springfield Inc

To identify problems facing the poor and homeless in springfield, il and to implement and coordinate services to help address those problems.

Housing & Shelter
11
Inner City Mission of Springfield

The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.

Religion
12
Illinois Credit Union League

Support state and federally chartered credit unions in illinois by providing education, advocacy and compliance services allowing them to prosper in the financial marketplace.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Urban League Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $585,036 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INCSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE: $220,461 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARB…The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce: $218,550 · OtherThe Greater Springfield Chamber of…Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation: $28,724 · OtherSPARC: $23,775 · Other+8 more: $70,000 · Other+8 moreMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $298,891 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH CENT…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…Girls on the Run of Central Illinois: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on t…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'…Illinois State Dental Society Foundation: $25,000 · EducationSpringfield Education Foundation: $5,000 · EducationCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $24,664 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$585,036Other$561,510Health$303,891Youth Development$172,500Arts & Culture$160,000Education$30,000Food & Nutrition$24,664

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $585,036 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $298,891 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce: $218,550 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $160,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $150,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetIllinois State Dental Society Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $24,664 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPARC: $23,775 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONTACT MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMercy Communities Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSpringfield Urban League Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringfield Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Levi Ray & Shoup Foun…Community Foundation …Green Family Charitab…United Way of Central…Aa Harvey FoundationMemorial Health Syste…Enterprise Holdings F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Levi Ray & Shoup FoundationIL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Aa Harvey Foundation · Memorial Health System Group · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Memorial Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memorial Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $44k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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