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· Public charity

Memorial Health System Group

To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$1.7M
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 2024.

Health$54MHuman Services$12MPhilanthropy$6.7MEducation$6.6MEmployment$6.5MYouth Development$740kHousing & Shelter$545kCommunity Improvement$307kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $12,447,748, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,126,105 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,678,357 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+12 grants · $11M
$35,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$1,666,924
SIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC DBA SIU HEALTHCARE$1,632,299
ILLINOIS COLLEGE$1,373,220
ILLINOIS CANCER CARE$1,234,733
SPRINGFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$1,093,408
MISSOURI BAPTIST$834,836
RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$812,500
FEMA$671,752
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY$580,000
YMCA$500,000
SIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$339,397
TAYLORVILLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$317,497
ST FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER$184,204
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$164,225
MEMORIAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$139,398
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $50k → 15%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $5k → 16%WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUT ADVOCACY: $5k → 15%SPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $15k → 11%SPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $15k → 11%SPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $15k → 11%SPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $10k → 11%THE OUTLET: $276k → 11%MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $17k → 11%MOTHERLAND GARDENS: $10k → 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 11% of Memorial Health System Group’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Memorial Health System Grouplessmore 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90M · 45 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
31

Total granted

$90M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-4%

Still filing today

53%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $860k 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 ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SP
    SIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19M · revenue +75%
  • IC
    ILLINOIS COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +28%
  • DM
    DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • LL
    LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6.1M · revenue -69% · 72% of their budget
  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +74%
  • W
    WQPT
    one grant, 2024 · $851k
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.

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Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
2
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
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
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
5
Memorial Health System Group

To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.

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6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

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…

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8
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
9
Southern Indiana Community Health Care Inc

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…

Health
10
Illinois Health and Hospital Association

To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.

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11
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

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…

Health
12
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Decatur and Mid Il; the most unlike its peers is Metro Decatur Black Chamber of Commerce. 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

58 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. 58 of the 90 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
28/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE: $17,746,331 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALEYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD: $12,770,370 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELDTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $6,763,940 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISMEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $6,714,111 · OtherMEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMILLINOIS CANCER CARE: $4,108,052 · OtherILLINOIS CANCER CAREMISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER: $3,432,791 · OtherMISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTERRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,254,000 · Other+47 more: $8,073,488 · Other+47 moreSIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC: $18,602,031 · HealthSIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS I…DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $1,651,774 · HealthDECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITALMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $1,633,103 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CE…+12 more: $2,436,952 · Health+12 moreLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,082,978 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $769,366 · Philanthropy+2 more: $101,227 · PhilanthropyILLINOIS COLLEGE: $3,516,251 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,500,000 · Education+2 more: $40,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $556,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS: $53,050 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $32,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $22,546 · Arts & CultureThe Outlet: $276,070 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $105,204 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesGOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $34,750 · Human Services+2 more: $10,022 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $465,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$62,863,083Health$24,323,860Philanthropy$6,953,571Education$5,056,751Arts & Culture$664,096Human Services$546,046Housing & Shelter$465,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC: $18,602,031 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD: $12,770,370 over 7y, 82% of budgetLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,082,978 over 1y, 72% of budgetILLINOIS COLLEGE: $3,516,251 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,254,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $1,633,103 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $799,225 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $769,366 over 4y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $556,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetABRAHAM LINCOLN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $465,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER: $424,354 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $405,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $395,155 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe Outlet: $276,070 over 1y, 26% of budgetLINCOLN ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT & DEVELOPMENT INC: $200,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSouthern Illinois Hospital Services: $140,054 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield Urban League Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $105,204 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMACMURRAY COLLEGE: $97,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $56,513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrairieland United Way Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS: $53,050 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetGOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL: $46,227 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CLINICAL TRIALS IN ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $40,352 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnos Park Neighborhood Improvement Association Inc: $37,226 over 1y, 17% of budgetRTOG FOUNDATION INC: $34,930 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $34,750 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $32,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBABY TALK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOPE SCHOOL: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJacksonville Regional Economic Development Corporation: $23,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTAYLORVILLE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $18,400 over 1y, 12% of budgetSpringfield Illinois African American History Foundatio: $17,465 over 2y, 11% of budgetBALL-CHATHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE HOPE FOUNDATION: $11,673 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ILLINOIS CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL NETWORK: $9,296 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirls on the Run of Central Illinois: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBROTHER JAMES COURT ASSOCIATION: $6,335 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD YOUTH PERFORMANCE GROUP INC: $5,081 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDECATUR POLICEMAN'S BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $5,040 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY: $5,022 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SIU PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM LINCOLN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Outlet ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Illinois Hospital Services ↗
  • Who funds Springfield Urban League Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MACMURRAY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Horace Mann Educators…Levi Ray & Shoup Foun…United Way of Central…Green Family Charitab…United Way of Decatur…Andreas FoundationMemorial Health SystemRenaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …
Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln IncIL21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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 90 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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