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Michael Reese Health Trust
Michael Reese partners with the Chicagoland community to advance and advocate for lasting health solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k42 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+16 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $548,894 |
| HEARTLAND HEALTH OUTREACH INC | $500,000 |
| RECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP CO CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES | $450,000 |
| JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $442,750 |
| ASSOCIATED TALMUD TORAHS OF CHICAGO | $405,000 |
| WINGS PROGRAM INC | $320,000 |
| HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP | $300,000 |
| ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY | $300,000 |
| BLACK MIDWIFERY COLLECTIVE | $300,000 |
| SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW | $300,000 |
| ILLINOIS PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| LEGAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH JUSTICE | $300,000 |
| FAMILY RESCUE | $275,000 |
| THE THRESHOLDS | $250,000 |
| SOUTH SUBURBAN FAMILY SHELTER | $250,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $7.6M) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC2× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
- TNTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +102%
- AIACCLIVUS INC2× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- ICIllinois Community Health Workers Associationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +57% · 89% of their budget
- COCITY OF CHICAGOone grant, 2024 · $675k
- SPSTATE POWER FUNDone grant, 2024 · $650k · revenue 0%
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
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…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
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.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…
Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
The organization is committed to the mission of facilitating the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
153 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. 153 of the 180 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ACCLIVUS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds Illinois Community Health Workers Association ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds STATE POWER FUND ↗
- Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
- Who funds ANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds RECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
- Who funds Community Health NFP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST REFUAH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE ↗
- Who funds Healing to Action ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds Illinois Public Health Institute ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Pritzker Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation
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 Michael Reese Health Trust 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.