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Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago

Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago (phimc) enhances the capacity of public health and healthcare systems to promote health equity and expand access to services.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$9.8MHuman Services$2.0MReligion$1.1MEducation$880kPhilanthropy$413kSocial Science$406kCommunity Improvement$233kHousing & Shelter$134kArts & Culture$79kOther$7.0M
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $229k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.9M
$85,690
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aids Healthcare FoundationCALOR$234,962
Center on Halsted$195,796
Chicago House & Social Service$180,201
Black United Fund$178,302
Proactive Community Services$171,461
Greater Elgin Family Care Center$158,686
Central Illinois Friends$118,639
Chicago Recovery Alliance$114,518
Hektoen Institute LLC$103,644
Men & Women In Prison Ministries$100,518
Chosen Family Network$85,690
Puerto Rican Cultural Center$84,656
Corazon Community Services$80,164
Douglas County$66,663
Kenneth Young Center$48,368
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Aids Healthcare FoundationCALOR: $235k → 14%Aids Healthcare FoundationCALOR: $120k → 14%Aids Healthcare FoundationCALOR: $100k → 14%Aids Healthcare FoundationCALOR: $64k → 14%Aids Healthcare FoundationCALOR: $62k → 14%Project VIDA: $46k → 14%TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT: $30k → 14%Center on Halsted: $196k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $80k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $61k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $49k → 14%CORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES: $45k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $43k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $33k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $26k → 14%AUNT MARTHA'S YOUTH SERVICE CENTER: $66k → 14%The Women's Treatment Center: $103k → 14%THE WOMEN'S TREATMENT CENTER: $103k → 14%The Women's Treatment Center: $95k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $30k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $28k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $16k → 14%Children Home & Aid Society of Illinois: $50k → 14%Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center: $71k → 14%Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center: $37k → 14%Polish American Association: $66k → 14%POLISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $66k → 14%Polish American Association: $60k → 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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 64 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

64 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
26

Total granted

$21M
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+41%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AF
    AIDS Foundation of Chicago
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
  • HA
    HEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +162%
  • PC
    PROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $800k · revenue +667% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • BH
    BROTHERS HEALTH COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $52k
  • IA
    I AM ABLE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +32%

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
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
2
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
3
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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4
Chicago Women's Health Center

The organization is committed to the mission of facilitating the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.

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5
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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6
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
7
Detroit Community Health Connection

Dchc is a primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities we serve.

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8
Heartland Alliance Health

Heartland alliance health's mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable, particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses, improving health for all…

Health
9
The Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc

To strengthen the resilience and hope of our diverse community members by improving their health and well-being.

Health
10
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
11
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
12
Swedish Covenant Health

Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Improvement Center and the most unlike its peers is Proactive Community Services. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/90
the rest of the field
16%
4,998/31,420

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

71 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. 71 of the 94 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
54/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AIDS Foundation of Chicago — $1,520,362 · HealthAIDS Foundation of ChicagoTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE — $1,316,922 · HealthTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINETHE CHICAGO RECOVERY ALLIANCE — $1,270,237 · HealthTHE CHICAGO RECOVERY ALLIANCEHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC — $1,024,835 · HealthHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INCPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $800,480 · HealthPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICESCOOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $485,446 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $471,964 · HealthPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER — $457,727 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $407,189 · Health+17 more — $2,031,109 · Health+17 moreMcDermott Center — $1,720,430 · OtherMcDermott CenterChosen Family Network — $539,200 · OtherChosen Family NetworkMAPSCORPS — $522,276 · OtherMAPSCORPSPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $393,539 · OtherAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House — $364,696 · OtherLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $347,921 · OtherRENZ ADDICTION COUNSELING CENTER — $342,528 · OtherHoward Brown Health Center — $341,390 · OtherECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $338,085 · Other+40 more — $2,506,124 · Other+40 moreAIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $580,932 · Human ServicesAIDS HEALT…CORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES — $337,236 · Human ServicesCORAZON CO…The Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares — $301,518 · Human ServicesThe Womens…Center on Halsted — $195,796 · Human ServicesCenter on …POLISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — $191,807 · Human ServicesPOLISH AME…AUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC — $174,175 · Human ServicesAUNT MARTH…ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $73,647 · Human Services+3 more — $125,237 · Human Services+3 moreMEN & WOMEN IN PRISON MINISTRIES — $763,195 · ReligionSt Leonard's Ministries — $287,071 · ReligionLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $438,239 · EducationChicago State Foundation — $188,498 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $181,586 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $39,903 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology — $31,475 · EducationChristian Community Health Center — $412,839 · PhilanthropyMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE — $406,117 · Social Science
Health$9,786,271Other$7,416,189Human Services$1,980,348Religion$1,050,266Education$879,701Philanthropy$412,839Social Science$406,117

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMcDermott Center — $1,720,430 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $1,520,362 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE — $1,316,922 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHICAGO RECOVERY ALLIANCE — $1,270,237 over 7y, 20% of budgetHEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC — $1,024,835 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPROACTIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $800,480 over 7y, 26% of budgetMEN & WOMEN IN PRISON MINISTRIES — $763,195 over 7y, 22% of budgetAIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $580,932 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAPSCORPS — $522,276 over 2y, 47% of budgetCOOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $485,446 over 3y, 27% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $471,964 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER — $457,727 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $438,239 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Community Health Center — $412,839 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $407,189 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE — $406,117 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $393,539 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House — $364,696 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $347,921 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRENZ ADDICTION COUNSELING CENTER — $342,528 over 3y, 10% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $341,390 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $338,085 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCORAZON COMMUNITY SERVICES — $337,236 over 7y, 10% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION — $321,901 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Cares — $301,518 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries — $287,071 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGREATER FAMILY HEALTH — $264,645 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $220,853 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $218,935 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCenter on Halsted — $195,796 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKENNETH YOUNG CENTER — $193,761 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOLISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — $191,807 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $188,613 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALTERNATIVES INC — $184,321 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $181,586 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK UNITED FUND OF ILLINOIS INC — $178,302 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $174,363 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC — $174,175 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Illinois Friends of PWA Inc — $133,639 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSisters and Brothers Helping Each Other — $129,740 over 2y, 21% of budgetOPEN DOOR CLINIC OF GREATER ELGIN — $128,043 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $103,019 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AGE SERVICES CORPORATION — $81,723 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLatinos Progresando — $78,680 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $78,070 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $74,439 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $73,647 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $60,570 over 3y, 1.2% 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.

United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…AIDS Foundation of Ch…Polk Bros Foundation …Illinois Children's H…Michael Reese Health …Circle of Service Fou…Robert R McCormick Fo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationIllinois Primary Heal…Healthy Communities F…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL66.7× affinity33 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 · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AIDS Foundation of Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Illinois Primary Health Care Association · Healthy Communities 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 Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago 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 · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago?

    Find your warmest path to Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 94 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.

    Source object · view filing

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