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MHNU Corporation

The chicago fund, with a primary focus on greater chicago, is committed to tackling preventable and urgent public health issues to improve health and well-being of communities impacted by health disparities.

$200k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

86% of MHNU Corporation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Chicago Community Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year MHNU Corporation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $183k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
4
’18
3
’19
7
’20
5
’21
5
’22
5
’23
1
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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$677kCivil Rights$260kRecreation & Sports$245kCrime & Legal$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEmployment$50kInternational$41kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $182,645, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,362 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,717 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Chicago Fire Department$100,000
American Heart Association Inc$50,000
Gary Comer Youth Center Inc$10,000
Instituto del Progreso Latino$10,000
Community Health$7,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$5,145
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 (FY20–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Night Ministry: $15k → 14%NEW MOMS: $250k → 14%Instituto del Progreso Latino: $10k → 14%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$612k · 5 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$612k
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LC
    Legal Council for Health Justice
    5× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +52%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +16%
  • EH
    Equal Hope
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $245k · revenue +29%
  • NF
    Network For Young Adult Successgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +43%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $41k · revenue -8%
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
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
2
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
3
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
4
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
5
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
6
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
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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10
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

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.

Health
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
North Shore Health Care Foundation

To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Chicago Community Trust: $6,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community TrustMHN ACO LLC: $500,000 · OtherMHN ACO LLCWellness West Inc: $250,000 · OtherWellness West …Legal Council for Health Justice: $100,000 · OtherLegal Council …City of Chicago Fire Department: $100,000 · OtherCity of Chicag…Network For Young Adult Success: $50,000 · OtherTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $40,815 · Other+6 more: $60,845 · Other+6 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $500,000 · Food & NutritionSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $325,000 · Crime & LegalNEW MOMS INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $15,050 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 · Recreation & SportsCommunity Health NFP: $77,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $70,000 · HealthEqual Hope: $39,500 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $10,000 · Health
Philanthropy$6,000,000Other$1,101,660Food & Nutrition$500,000Crime & Legal$325,000Human Services$275,050Recreation & Sports$245,000Health$197,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $6,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $325,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $100,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $77,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork For Young Adult Success: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $40,815 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Hope: $39,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $15,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $8,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chicago Network Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,145 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.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …Circle of Service Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Rush University Medic…Visiting Nurse Associ…Advocate Health and H…Chicago Cook Workforc…Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …The Ayco Charitable F…
The Chicago Community TrustIL22.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Rush University Medical Center · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 MHNU Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MHNU Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to MHNU Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to MHNU Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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