How much did Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group grant in FY2024?

Recreation & Sports$97MHealth$23MArts & Culture$10MHuman Services$6.2MYouth Development$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.8MEducation$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MOther$19M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

teachersjewishrightshistorypediatricwritersadvancing

2020

almost kidschamberglobalmedical researchnursingindependentnonpartisan

2021

bataviabuwsafe spacesspaces experiencingexperiencing violencelibraryfinancial

2022

organicnhshousingwellness educationaccess lowsurvivors domesticemployment

2023

non-profitsportssingleministrydisordersmarfanvascular

2024

mental behavioraladdressing homelessnessnutritious foodeducation youthhealth substanceabuse disordereducation skills

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 250 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k44 grants · $302k
$10k–50k141 grants · $3.7M
$50k–250k49 grants · $3.4M
$250k+16 grants · $29M

$28,000

Median grant

States reached

$14.2B

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$18,261,525
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$2,515,876
THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP$1,978,932
THRESHOLDS$1,200,000
THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC$1,069,800
NEAR NORTH HEALTH SERVICE CORP$550,000
BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH$500,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$457,244
DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION$450,875
WINFIELD FIRE PROTECTION DIST$416,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$415,627
COMMUNITY HEALTH$350,000
NAVY PIER INC$270,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$256,000
INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK$250,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$158M · 197 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

197 repeat relationships — 147 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 102 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

197

Total granted

$158M

$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+56%

Still filing today

89%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity 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
7× · 2018–2024 · $96M · revenue +33%
EF
Erie Family Health Center
7× · 2018–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +68%
DH
DuPage Health Coalition
7× · 2018–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +64% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

AM
AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue +36%
ES
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +56%
RO
Regents of Univ of California
one grant, 2020 · $245k

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.

Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights

Care Partners of Cook County

Care Partners of Cook County provides support and companionship on the journey of aging and serious illness

Human Services

Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il

Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.

Human Services

Chicago Family Health Center Inc

To provide healthcare services to all patients

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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

Aspire of Illinois

Aspire's mission is to support the successes of people with developmental disabilities, strengthen their families and build embracing communities.

Human Services

North Shore Health Care Foundation

To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding education and advocacy

Health

Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services

Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services

Cornerstone Counseling Ctr Chicago

Cornerstone Counseling empowers people to reach their spiritual, relational, and emotional potential through exceptional counseling and personal development services.

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The Chicago Fund On Aging and Disability

Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.

Food & Nutrition

Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill and the most unlike its peers is The Thresholds. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%3/387

the rest of the field

13%

5,167/40,066

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.

05the grantee network

337 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

127

Early backer (in before they grew)

331/337

Grantees still filing

272/337

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$96,839,191Health$23,199,118Other$23,835,729Arts & Culture$10,248,961Human Services$6,152,861Youth Development$2,187,000Housing & Shelter$1,830,720

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

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL127.1× affinity94 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 · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · George M Eisenberg Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox · The Bersted Foundation · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Forefront

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 organisation Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363446040 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group?

Find your warmest path to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

337 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group?

More from the funding graph

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

337 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group?

More from the funding graph