· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $302k
- $10k–50k141 grants · $3.7M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2024 · $111M · revenue +41%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +49%- EFErie Family Health Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +114%
Funded once
- AMAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INCone grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue -15%
- FCFree Choice Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOone 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.
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.
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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A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
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…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
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…
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.
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How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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