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Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the patient comes first.

$38M
Granted FY2024still arriving
250
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$18M
Largest
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.

Education$113MHealth$39MPublic Benefit$11MCommunity Improvement$4.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.4MHousing & Shelter$3.0MHuman Services$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 250 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 250 grants below total $36,676,418, the rows itemized in this filing. The $38,008,718 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,332,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
6
States reached
$14.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VNA HEALTHCARE$250,000
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 (FY17–24, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $50k → 13%Lazarus House: $158k → 8%Lazarus House: $75k → 8%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $116k → 14%Lazarus House: $50k → 8%TURNING POINT: $50k → 6%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $45k → 8%Mano A Mano Family Resource Center: $40k → 8%THE BEACON PLACE NFP: $50k → 8%HAMDARD CENTER FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NFP: $50k → 7%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY & YOUTH SERVICES: $40k → 7%DUPAGE FEDERATION ON HUMAN SERVICES REFORM: $55k → 7%DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $53k → 7%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 13%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $132k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $119k → 14%DUPAGE FEDERATION ON HUMAN SERVICES REFORM: $50k → 7%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $105k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $50k → 7%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $100k → 14%Connections for Abused Women and their Children: $55k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $40k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $40k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $125k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $120k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%OPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $45k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $45k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $40k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%Arab American Family Services: $50k → 14%360 YOUTH SERVICES: $88k → 7%TOGETHER WE COPE: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $40k → 14%CHILDRENS PLACE ASSOCIATION: $49k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $70k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $40k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $40k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $40k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $40k → 14%I AM ABEL FOUNDATOIN: $75k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $1.7M → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN JOY EMPORIUM: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175M · 208 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

208 repeat relationships: 148 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 101 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208
82

Total granted

$175M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+25%

Still filing today

89%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Northwestern University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111M · revenue +41%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +49%
  • EF
    Erie Family Health Center Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • AM
    AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue -15%
  • FC
    Free Choice Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2020 · $245k
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
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

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2
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
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
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
5
Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…

Human Services
6
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
7
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
8
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
9
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
10
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
11
Thrive Counseling Center

Our mission is to provide community-centered mental health services that empower individuals and families to build resilience and lead lives filled with meaning, connection, and hope.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill; the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

347 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 347 of the 394 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
340/347
Grantees still filing
244/347
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $110,578,763 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+5 more: $316,000 · Recreation & SportsErie Family Health Center Inc: $8,269,859 · HealthErie Family Hea…DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $3,970,210 · HealthDUPAGE HEALTH C…Near North Health Service Corporation: $3,610,759 · HealthNear North Heal…THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $2,416,432 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CE…Community Health NFP: $1,274,742 · Health+24 more: $5,086,347 · Health+24 moreVILLAGE OF WINFIELD: $4,595,769 · OtherVILLAGE OF WINF…WINFIELD FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $3,282,510 · OtherWINFIELD FIRE P…Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $2,021,024 · OtherRosalind Frankl…THE THRESHOLDS: $1,239,600 · OtherVNA Health Care: $1,065,000 · OtherFree Choice Healthcare Foundation: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $1,074,800 · Other+98 more: $10,300,239 · Other+98 moreTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $9,686,911 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $561,500 · Arts & CultureAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $1,692,946 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $836,700 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE: $327,813 · Human ServicesMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $270,000 · Human ServicesKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $230,000 · Human Services+33 more: $2,584,747 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $775,350 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY: $771,615 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO LIGHTS: $180,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $97,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $415,065 · PhilanthropyBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $1,800,000 · Youth DevelopmentLADIES OF VIRTUE: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICAGO SURVIVORS INC: $83,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $120,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$110,894,763Health$24,628,349Other$24,578,942Arts & Culture$10,248,411Human Services$5,942,206Philanthropy$2,239,030Youth Development$2,133,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $110,578,763 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $9,686,911 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $8,269,859 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $3,970,210 over 8y, 31% of budgetNear North Health Service Corporation: $3,610,759 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $2,416,432 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $2,021,024 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $1,800,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $1,692,946 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $1,274,742 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $1,239,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $1,074,800 over 2y, 23% of budgetVNA Health Care: $1,065,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $836,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $813,028 over 2y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $775,350 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY: $771,615 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetMCHC CHICAGO HOSPITAL COUNCIL: $739,515 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $665,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $517,244 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetACCLIVUS INC: $475,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $471,875 over 6y, 36% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $438,562 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $358,236 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $327,813 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetSPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION: $293,964 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $292,070 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY PIER INC: $278,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLuster Learning Institute NFP: $276,441 over 5y, 13% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $275,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $270,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $255,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $250,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $235,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $230,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $225,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Counseling Centers of Chicago Inc: $190,117 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS: $180,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $174,012 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $170,955 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetWAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $162,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $161,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation: $152,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $149,560 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center: $139,150 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $133,100 over 3y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Near North Health Service Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
  • Who funds AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Health NFP ↗
  • Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
  • Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds VNA Health Care ↗
  • Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds MCHC CHICAGO HOSPITAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACCLIVUS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NAVY PIER INC ↗
  • Who funds Luster Learning Institute NFP ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL115.1× affinity80 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 for Charities · The Bersted Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women

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 Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
88report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 394 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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