· Private foundation
Miriam U Hoover Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIRIAM U HOOVER AND H EARL HOOVER FOUNDATION (FKA HOOVER FOUNDATION) | $15,319,311 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $400,000 |
| HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER | $150,000 |
| JOURNEYCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $25,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $25,000 |
| AIDS FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| BISHOP ANDERSON HOUSE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CENTER | $15,000 |
| JOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| MCCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ABOUT FACE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago2× · 2020–2021 · $800k · revenue +34%
- HBHoward Brown Health Center2× · 2020–2021 · $160k · revenue +15%
- LDLIVING DESERT THE2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NORTHERN MICHIGANone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SJST JAMES CATHEDRALone grant, 2020 · $35k
- ECEPISCOPAL CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds AIDS Foundation of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds About Face Theatre Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTR ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Miriam U Hoover Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miriam U Hoover Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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