Illinois · Public charity
Michael Reese Health Trust
Michael Reese partners with the Chicagoland community to advance and advocate for lasting health solutions. We do this by carrying forward the vision of Michael Reese Hospital's Jewish founders and the generations of philanthropic leadership they inspired.
- $10.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $548,894
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 105
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $163M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Michael Reese Health Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 62 | $9.4M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $11M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $6.7M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 105 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $1,975,200 | 2 | 3% |
| The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence | $1,572,365 | 3 | 9% |
| Acclivus Inc | $1,401,974 | 2 | 7% |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group | $1,200,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Sinai Health System | $977,536 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $850,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Christian Community Health Center | $808,333 | 2 | 2% |
| Illinois Community Health Workers Association | $750,000 | 1 | 89% |
| Wings Program Inc | $732,267 | 4 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $727,400 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 161 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Michael Reese Health Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Michael Reese Health Trust
- How much does Michael Reese Health Trust give?
- Michael Reese Health Trust reported 63 grants totaling $9,971,785 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 105 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Michael Reese Health Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Human Services (19%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are Michael Reese Health Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($2.0M), The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence ($1.6M), Acclivus Inc ($1.4M).
- Does Michael Reese Health Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael Reese Health Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Michael Reese Health Trust based?
- Michael Reese Health Trust is based in IL.
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