· Public charity
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
We, mercy health system of chicago and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mhmc is a member of mercy health system of chicago and trinity health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $1,166,436 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,278,581 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,145 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,166,436 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IHILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $2.2M · revenue -4%
- CFCENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue -37%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $79k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CFCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue +206%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +78%- TPTRUSTYCUP PRODUCTIONSone grant, 2019 · $40k
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.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
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…
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Ccbf pays bond for people charged with crimes in cook county, illinois. through a revolving fund, ccbf supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence.
To improve community health through participatory evaluation, applied research, assessment, and data services. please see schedule o for remainder of disclosure.
Through fundraising, education and advocacy, cook county health foundation supports high-quality, respectful and responsive health care for all through our public health system, cook county health. the foundation invests in services,…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for New Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustycup Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago KICS Community Academy ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTYCUP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Equal Hope ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust
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 Mercy Hospital and Medical Center 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.
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
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.