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Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$2.9MCommunity Improvement$144kInternational$63kArts & Culture$57kHuman Services$55kEmployment$33kPhilanthropy$31kRecreation & Sports$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $448,930 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,441,567 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,992,637 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$8,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND$150,000
Community Health$50,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC$32,000
Commercial Club FDN$30,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS$30,000
Health & Med Pol Res Group$22,500
BEARS CARE$17,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$12,000
OUR LADY OF THE HOLY FAMILY$10,000
CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE$8,630
EQUAL HOPE$8,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$8,500
CULINARY CARE$8,500
COOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION$8,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE Leadership$6,800
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 (FY22–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%I Am Abel Foundation: $10k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER: $5k → 14%I AM ABEL FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%White Sox Charities 8509: $30k → 14%BETHEL NEW LIFE INC: $5k → 14%AGEOPTIONS INC: $5k → 14%AGE OPTIONS INC: $5k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 28 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
35

Total granted

$2.9M
$479k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+5%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • IT
    ILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +148% · 46% of their budget
  • EH
    ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $343k · revenue +10%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $328k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IG
    IMD Guest House Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $141k · revenue +19%
  • SC
    SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue +32%
  • CW
    Chicago White Sox Charities Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -53%

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
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
2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
3
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
4
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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5
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
6
Illinois Health and Hospital Association

To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.

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7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
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
9
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
10
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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11
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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12
Ucm Network Development Foundation

To promote and support, directly or indirectly, by donation, loan or otherwise, the interests and purposes of ingalls memorial hospital and the university of chicago medical center.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is Firebrand Arts Network. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr15%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr15%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/70
the rest of the field
13%
8,065/60,012

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

64 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. 64 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
39/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $343,333 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERSAmerican Heart Association Inc — $327,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncCommunity Health NFP — $215,000 · HealthCommunity Health NFPIMD Guest House Foundation — $141,000 · HealthIMD Guest House FoundationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $111,900 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $92,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCEqual Hope — $91,000 · Health+20 more — $393,800 · Health+20 moreILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND — $1,003,000 · PhilanthropyILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUNDBEARS CARE — $95,000 · PhilanthropyBEARS CARE+3 more — $36,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $87,500 · OtherTHE COMMER…Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $30,000 · OtherAccess Liv…PARK DISTRICT OF OAK PARK — $28,200 · OtherPARK DISTR…FRANCISCAN OUTREACH — $15,000 · OtherHEART VALVE INTERACTIVE CORP — $12,500 · OtherGarfield Park Community Council — $15,000 · Other+18 more — $124,330 · Other+18 moreCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NFP — $58,000 · InternationalEQUALHEALTH INC — $5,000 · InternationalUMANA Foundation — $5,000 · InternationalChicago White Sox Charities Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesI AM ABEL FOUNDATION — $17,500 · Human ServicesAGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) — $10,000 · Human ServicesCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $5,000 · Human ServicesBETHEL NEW LIFE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $31,480 · EmploymentSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $25,000 · EmploymentThe Cara Program — $7,500 · EmploymentSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $47,141 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$1,715,533Philanthropy$1,134,000Other$312,530International$68,000Human Services$67,500Employment$63,980Arts & Culture$52,141

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetILLINOIS TRANSPLANT FUND — $1,003,000 over 7y, 46% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $343,333 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $327,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health NFP — $215,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation — $141,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $111,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEARS CARE — $95,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $92,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Hope — $91,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $87,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NFP — $58,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $56,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $52,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP — $50,050 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $47,141 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $31,480 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC — $30,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAcoustic Neuroma Association — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetChicago White Sox Charities Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH — $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Bulls Charities — $21,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRAINUP INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetI AM ABEL FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGarfield Park Community Council — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRush Copley Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabilitative Systems Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDGAR FELLOWS — $9,830 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNAMI Chicago — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Academy of Nursing — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cara Program — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH — $7,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Lloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Michael Reese Health …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Northwestern Memorial…John D and Catherine …Greater Chicago Food …Visiting Nurse Associ…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL46× affinity21 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 · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna 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 Rush University Medical Center 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 · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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: 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.

    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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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