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Michael Reese Health Trust

Michael Reese partners with the Chicagoland community to advance and advocate for lasting health solutions.

$10.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$549k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$16MHuman Services$7.8MHousing & Shelter$4.1MPhilanthropy$2.6MCrime & Legal$1.9MEmployment$1.8MCivil Rights$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+16 grants · $5.5M
$125,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$163M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LEGAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH JUSTICE$300,000
ILLINOIS PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$300,000
HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP$300,000
SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW$300,000
ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY$300,000
BLACK MIDWIFERY COLLECTIVE$300,000
FAMILY RESCUE$275,000
SOUTH SUBURBAN FAMILY SHELTER$250,000
THE THRESHOLDS$250,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STATE REVENUE ALLIANCE (STATE POWER FUND): $650k → 12%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1.2M → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $180k → 14%CHICAGO METROPOLITAN BATTERED WOMENS NETWORK: $175k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 14%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $200k → 14%CENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE: $75k → 14%CENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE: $75k → 14%SARAHS INN: $160k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $80k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $80k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $60k → 14%CASA CENTRAL: $50k → 14%CASA CENTRAL: $35k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $377k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $350k → 14%JANE ADDAMS SENIOR CAUCUS: $100k → 14%JANE ADDAMS SENIOR CAUCUS: $50k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE: $275k → 14%ALIANZA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $75k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE INC: $50k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE INC: $50k → 14%BLACK MIDWIFERY COLLECTIVE: $300k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $30k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $105k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $35k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $75k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $55k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $40k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $20k → 14%AGEOPTIONS: $35k → 14%AGEOPTIONS: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $443k → 14%JCFS CHICAGO: $211k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $45k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $75k → 14%THE ARK: $505k → 14%CJE SENIORLIFE: $184k → 14%SHALVA: $129k → 14%THE ARK: $182k → 14%SHALVA: $71k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $80k → 14%SHALVA: $60k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $45k → 14%SHALVA: $60k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 70 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
94

Total granted

$27M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+14%

Still filing today

97%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
  • TN
    THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +102%
  • AI
    ACCLIVUS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • IC
    Illinois Community Health Workers Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +57% · 89% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $675k
  • SP
    STATE POWER FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $650k · revenue 0%
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
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
Live Free Chicago

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…

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3
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
4
Illinois Partners for Human Service

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…

Human Services
5
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
6
Latino Union of Chicago

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.

Human Services
7
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
8
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

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…

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9
Chicago Women's Health Center

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.

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10
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
11
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
12
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

153 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. 153 of the 180 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/153
Grantees still filing
105/153
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCLIVUS INC: $1,401,974 · HealthACCLIVUS INCHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $1,200,000 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY …SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $977,536 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEMESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $688,060 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERSMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $573,483 · HealthMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICA…HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $550,000 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTHPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $525,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPRO…Community Health NFP: $404,279 · HealthMIDWEST REFUAH HEALTH CENTER: $362,500 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $353,686 · Health+22 more: $2,744,048 · Health+22 moreCITY OF CHICAGO: $675,000 · OtherCITY OF CHICAGOASSOCIATED TALMUD TORAHS OF CHICAGO: $605,000 · OtherLegal Council for Health Justice: $575,000 · OtherANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $490,000 · OtherLATINO POLICY FORUM: $450,000 · OtherCOMMUNITYHEALTH: $439,401 · OtherIllinois Community Health Workers Association: $750,000 · OtherIllinois Community Health Workers…+78 more: $8,186,122 · Other+78 moreTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,572,365 · Human ServicesTHE NETWORK ADVOCATIN…Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $727,400 · Human ServicesJewish Community Cent…THE ARK: $700,253 · Human ServicesTHE ARKJewish Child and Family Services: $654,150 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Fami…STATE POWER FUND: $650,000 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER FUNDFAMILY RESCUE INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE: $350,000 · Human ServicesSHALVA INC: $325,319 · Human ServicesSARAH'S INN: $320,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $308,500 · Human ServicesBlack Midwifery Collective NFP: $300,000 · Human Services+18 more: $1,569,900 · Human Services+18 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $2,123,222 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,975,200 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …Christian Community Health Center: $808,333 · PhilanthropyChristian Comm…+3 more: $180,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $850,000 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INC: $732,267 · Housing & ShelterRECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP: $450,000 · Housing & ShelterALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterGAP COMMUNITY CENTER: $154,999 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $145,000 · Housing & Shelter+7 more: $257,000 · Housing & ShelterSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $700,000 · Crime & LegalSafer Foundation: $450,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC: $176,500 · Crime & LegalJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION: $144,809 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $100,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC EQUITY: $79,984 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $60,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $514,922 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chicago: $195,000 · Community ImprovementLogan Square Neighborhood Association: $150,000 · Community ImprovementSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $150,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $150,000 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $150,000 · Community ImprovementResilience Partners NFP: $49,985 · Community Improvement
Health$9,780,566Other$12,170,523Human Services$7,852,887Philanthropy$5,086,755Housing & Shelter$2,939,266Crime & Legal$1,711,293Community Improvement$1,359,907

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $2,123,222 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,975,200 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,572,365 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetACCLIVUS INC: $1,401,974 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $1,200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $977,536 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $850,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetChristian Community Health Center: $808,333 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIllinois Community Health Workers Association: $750,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $732,267 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $727,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARK: $700,253 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $700,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $688,060 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $654,150 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $650,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $575,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $573,483 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $525,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $514,922 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetANEW BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE: $490,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM: $450,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetRECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP: $450,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSafer Foundation: $450,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $404,279 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY RESCUE INC: $375,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMIDWEST REFUAH HEALTH CENTER: $362,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $353,686 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE: $350,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetHealing to Action: $340,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $335,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHALVA INC: $325,319 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetIllinois Public Health Institute: $320,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $320,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $312,330 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $308,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSwedish Covenant Health: $255,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $235,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTapestry 360 Health: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Tenant Education Network: $200,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetCHICAGO CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS: $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $195,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $181,122 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

United Way of Metropo…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Robert R McCormick Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Visiting Nurse Associ…The Chicago Community…Pritzker Family Found…Lloyd a Fry FoundationHealthy Communities F…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL123.2× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Michael Reese Health Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Reese Health Trust. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 180 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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