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Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation

The research and education foundation conducts medical research, education, and community services for various areas of medicine including, but not limited to, oncology research, cardiovascular research, and healthcare delivery.

$228k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$3.9MEducation$1.0MScience & Tech$1.0MCrime & Legal$350kHuman Services$13kArts & Culture$5kEmployment$100
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSELAND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE$200,000
MEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR LATINO ADVANCEMENT - MOLA$15,000
ADVOCATE TRINITY HOSPITAL$10,000
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE CHICAGO$3,000
URBAN ALLIANCE$100
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 (FY23–23, $13k) 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 PUDDLE PROJECT: $13k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 92%.

Michael Reese Research and Education Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 8 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$6.1M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • RF
    Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +18%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2019–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +39%
  • MO
    MEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR LATINO ADVANCEMENT
    6× · 2018–2024 · $380k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • LC
    Legal Council for Health Justice
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • IA
    INDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +108%
  • TP
    The Puddle Project NFP
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
2
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
3
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
4
Alliancechicago

Alliancechicago is the continuation of an existing effort to bring together charitable federally qualified health centers (fqhcs) to collaboratively pursue their charitable missions by better serving their disadvantaged patients with…

Health
5
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
6
University of Illinois Alumni Association

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…

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7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
9
Respiratory Health Association

Mission is to prevent lung disease, promote clean air and help people live better through education, research, and policy change.

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10
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
11
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispano Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Puddle Project Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2,061,218 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $1,577,200 · OtherRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science+4 more: $301,993 · Other+4 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,500,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationMEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR LATINO ADVANCEMENT: $380,000 · EducationMEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR LATINO ADVA…University of Chicago: $159,200 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Civil RightsTHE CHICAGO RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $10,000 · HealthADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP: $10,000 · HealthThe Puddle Project NFP: $13,200 · Human ServicesBLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Architecture Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Employment
Other$3,940,411Education$2,039,200Civil Rights$250,000Health$20,000Human Services$13,200Philanthropy$12,000Arts & Culture$5,000Employment$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $1,577,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL ORGANIZATION FOR LATINO ADVANCEMENT: $380,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $159,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $99,993 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetINSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF CHICAGO: $87,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Puddle Project NFP: $13,200 over 1y, 17% of budgetBLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CHICAGO RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $100 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…Circle of Service Fou…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Research and Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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