Illinois · Public charity
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to consistent, high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. We seek to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with sensitivity to the individual needs of our patients and their families. We are bonded in an essential…
- $36M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,133,357
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Northwestern Memorial HealthCare funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $36M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $45M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $47M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $34M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $50M | 72% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $29M | 83% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $21M | 88% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $258,345,875 | 8 | 2% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $911,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Navy Pier Inc | $316,500 | 4 | 0% |
| World Business Chicago | $166,300 | 5 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $109,500 | 4 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $107,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Making Kane County Fit for Kids | $105,500 | 6 | 29% |
| Wings Program Inc | $88,000 | 4 | 0% |
| VNA Health Care | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $62,750 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 126 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 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: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation
How this is measured
About Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
- How much does Northwestern Memorial HealthCare give?
- Northwestern Memorial HealthCare reported 43 grants totaling $35,993,607 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Northwestern Memorial HealthCare fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%), Community Improvement (0%).
- Who are Northwestern Memorial HealthCare's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwestern University ($258M), American Heart Association Inc ($911k), Navy Pier Inc ($317k).
- Does Northwestern Memorial HealthCare fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Northwestern Memorial HealthCare?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Northwestern Memorial HealthCare based?
- Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is based in IL.
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