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Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to consistent, high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction.

$36M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$35M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$259MHealth$1.8MCommunity Improvement$519kArts & Culture$399kFood & Nutrition$240kHousing & Shelter$158kPhilanthropy$130kYouth Development$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
  • $250k+1 grant · $35M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$15.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$35,133,357
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$150,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$57,500
CHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC$50,000
NAPLES CHILDREN AND EDUCATION$50,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$45,000
BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$40,000
THE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION$36,000
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$35,000
COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION$30,000
NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION INC$30,000
WINGS PROGRAM INC$28,250
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO$25,000
FUTURE OF HEALTH INC$25,000
STREETERVILLE ORGANIZATION OF ACTIVE RESIDENTS$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RISE UP FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 6%Pioneer Center for Human Services: $5k → 6%TURNING POINT: $5k → 6%Turning Point: $5k → 6%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%CHICAGO CHINATOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CO
VA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$261M · 38 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
63

Total granted

$261M
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
HealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Northwestern University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $258M · revenue +41%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $911k · revenue +26%
  • NP
    NAVY PIER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $317k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHICAGO CARES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -44%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +9%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +203%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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3
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
4
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
5
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
6
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

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…

Health
7
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
8
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
9
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
10
Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago

Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.

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11
The Executives' Club of Chicago

To be chicagos premier resources for connecting, developing, and growing best-in-class leaders to provide established and emerging leaders opportunities to develop and nurture meaningful relationships, participate in innovative…

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12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr14%0%35–55yr16%99%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/135
the rest of the field
15%
5,979/40,209

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

116 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 116 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/116
Grantees still filing
75/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Northwestern University — $258,345,875 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversityAmerican Heart Association Inc — $911,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $109,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $107,500 · HealthFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $58,750 · Health+17 more — $254,059 · HealthVNA Health Care — $80,000 · OtherTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $57,500 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $57,500 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO — $50,000 · OtherWINGS PROGRAM INC — $88,000 · OtherBig Shoulders Fund — $60,500 · OtherLADIES OF VIRTUE — $50,000 · Other+71 more — $914,418 · OtherNAVY PIER INC — $316,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $36,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $26,300 · Arts & CultureWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO — $166,300 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO DEFENDER CHARITIES INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CARES INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION — $36,000 · Community ImprovementSTREETERVILLE ORGANIZATION OF ACTIVE RESIDENTS — $30,000 · Community ImprovementChicagoFIRST Association — $18,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $34,200 · PhilanthropyChicago Blackhawks Foundation — $20,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $13,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO UNITED — $12,000 · PhilanthropyKishwaukee United Way — $11,000 · PhilanthropyLILLIAN MARCIE LEGACY CO — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY — $7,500 · Philanthropy+3 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS — $105,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $62,750 · Food & Nutrition
Recreation & Sports$258,345,875Health$1,440,809Other$1,357,918Arts & Culture$401,300Community Improvement$370,800Philanthropy$222,700Food & Nutrition$168,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthwestern University — $258,345,875 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $911,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY PIER INC — $316,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO — $166,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $109,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $107,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS — $105,500 over 6y, 29% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC — $88,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVNA Health Care — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $62,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $60,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $58,750 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $57,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLADIES OF VIRTUE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic — $42,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $41,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetChicagoland Chamber of Commerce — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $36,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION — $36,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $34,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETERVILLE ORGANIZATION OF ACTIVE RESIDENTS — $30,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CIVIC FEDERATION — $28,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFUTURE OF HEALTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF CHICAGO — $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetForward Dupage Incorporated — $25,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicagoFIRST Association — $18,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetB NAI B RITH — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $14,259 over 1y, 31% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO UNITED — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Northwestern Memorial…United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …The Community Foundat…Dekalb County Communi…Advocate Health and H…Arie and Ida Crown Me…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationCircle of Service Fou…
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare GroupIL88.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Northwestern Memorial HealthCare funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    43report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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