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· Public charity

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

$6.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Recreation & Sports$17MEducation$12MScience & Tech$8.5MHealth$7.2MPhilanthropy$9kYouth Development$8kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $5,805,314, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,887,779 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,082,465 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 $10k12 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $544k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.7M
$37,717
Median grant
20
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northwestern University$1,898,113
University Of Illinois$905,684
National University$649,810
University Of California Irvine$275,138
University Of Colorado-Boulder$174,803
Shepherd Center$166,808
University Of Washington$121,751
Research Triangle Institute$115,970
University Of Southern California$104,685
North Carolina State University$90,696
Medical Engineering & Development Institute Inc$87,270
Access Living Of Metropolitan Chicago$86,810
University Of Florida$75,126
Kessler Foundation$69,408
Center For Veterans Research And Education$67,647
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, $843k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kessler Foundation: $238k → 4%Advancing States Inc: $43k → 7%Kessler Foundation: $170k → 4%Advancing States Inc: $10k → 7%Kessler Foundation: $143k → 4%Advancing States Inc: $10k → 7%Kessler Foundation: $100k → 4%Kessler Foundation: $69k → 4%Kessler Foundation: $38k → 4%Council For Jewish Elderly dba CJE Seniorlife: $21k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 58 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
35

Total granted

$40M
$955k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+32%

Still filing today

43%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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 · $17M · revenue +41%
  • NU
    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +39%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SM
    Slice Mr
    one grant, 2023 · $219k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2018 · $123k
  • NM
    Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    one grant, 2019 · $115k
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
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
5
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
8
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
9
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is North Side Archery Club. 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

63 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. 63 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
55/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $16,707,966 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+2 more: $10,300 · Recreation & SportsTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $3,951,562 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…Cirtec Medical Llc: $1,874,477 · OtherCirtec Medical LlcUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1,419,342 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $1,079,823 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA…Indiana University School of Medicine: $803,683 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $796,349 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $646,099 · OtherCarnegie Mellon University: $608,099 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $514,680 · Other+54 more: $3,538,578 · Other+54 moreNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $1,190,023 · EducationNATIONAL UNIVERSIT…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,169,323 · EducationPresident and Fell…University of Illinois Foundation: $968,731 · EducationUniversity of Illi…Vanderbilt University: $698,169 · EducationVanderbilt Univers…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $673,916 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLO…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $602,466 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALI…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $362,386 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $292,747 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $289,344 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $260,852 · Education+13 more: $670,475 · Education+13 moreAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $1,133,607 · HealthAnn & Rob…CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $760,171 · HealthCENTER FO…MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $447,212 · HealthMARY FREE…HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $446,475 · HealthHENRY M J…SHEPHERD CENTER INC: $297,794 · HealthSHEPHERD …Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science: $204,602 · HealthChicago A…+15 more: $222,960 · Health+15 moreKessler Foundation Inc: $758,745 · Human ServicesADvancing States Inc: $63,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,772 · Human ServicesResearch Triangle Institute: $471,929 · Science & TechTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION: $5,150 · Community ImprovementThe Chicago Network Inc: $5,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $7,750 · International
Recreation & Sports$16,718,266Other$15,232,692Education$7,178,432Health$3,512,821Human Services$842,517Science & Tech$471,929Community Improvement$10,150International$7,750

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: $16,707,966 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $1,190,023 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,169,323 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $1,133,607 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $968,731 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $760,171 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $758,745 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVanderbilt University: $698,169 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $673,916 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $608,099 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $602,466 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $471,929 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $447,212 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $446,475 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $362,386 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $297,794 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $292,747 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $289,344 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $260,852 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $247,048 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $246,627 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $223,443 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science: $204,602 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $96,257 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $75,051 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADvancing States Inc: $63,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $55,309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNFX: $43,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRancho Research Institute: $42,976 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University: $39,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $36,373 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $35,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETIS FOUNDATION: $31,681 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $31,331 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $24,601 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $23,396 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute: $21,248 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $20,772 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $19,513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $16,502 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: $14,412 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $14,009 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIH FOUNDATION NFP: $10,410 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINCOLN ACADEMY OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $9,150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Kessler Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
  • Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science ↗

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.

University of Pittsbu…Northwestern Universi…American Heart Associ…The Trustees of Colum…National Multiple Scl…Alzheimer's Disease &…Trustees of Boston Un…Vanderbilt University…Cornell UniversityMayo ClinicWashington UniversityEmory University
University of PittsburghPA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: University of Pittsburgh · Northwestern University · American Heart Association Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Multiple Sclerosis Society · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Trustees of Boston University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · Washington University · Emory University

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 Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • Boston Va Research Institute Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 117 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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