· Public charity
Memorial Health System Group
To improve lives and build stronger communities through better health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $17,621,490 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,866,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,245,061 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $970k
- $250k+13 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC DBA SIU HEALTHCARE | $3,186,163 |
| SPRINGFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $2,063,672 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE | $1,963,875 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $1,676,667 |
| RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,625,000 |
| ILLINOIS CANCER CARE | $1,406,659 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST | $1,255,196 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $851,375 |
| MEMORIAL HEALTH | $707,624 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $580,000 |
| YMCA | $500,000 |
| SIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $314,875 |
| DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $301,161 |
| MEMORIAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $210,576 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $153,556 |
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 (FY21–24, $417k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Memorial Health System Group’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- SPSIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +75%
- ICILLINOIS COLLEGE4× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +28%
- DMDECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- LLLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $6.1M · revenue -69% · 72% of their budget
University of Illinois Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +74%- ALABRAHAM LINCOLN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -5%
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
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…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Care to terminal patients/families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Health System and the most unlike its peers is Springfield Immigrant Advocacy Network Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 76 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 SIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM LINCOLN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds The Outlet ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Urban League Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds MACMURRAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Southern Illinois Hospital Services ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
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: Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · The Community Foundation of Macon County · Horace Mann Educators Foundation · Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Andreas Foundation · Memorial Health System · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Memorial Health System Group 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.