· Public charity
MHNU Corporation
The chicago fund, with a primary focus on greater chicago, is committed to tackling preventable and urgent public health issues to improve health and well-being of communities impacted by health disparities.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of MHNU Corporation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Chicago Community Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year MHNU Corporation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $183k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $182,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $200,362 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,717 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Chicago Fire Department | $100,000 |
| American Heart Association Inc | $50,000 |
| Gary Comer Youth Center Inc | $10,000 |
| Instituto del Progreso Latino | $10,000 |
| Community Health | $7,500 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,145 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $275k) 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.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LCLegal Council for Health Justice5× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +52%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +16%
- EHEqual Hope4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $245k · revenue +29%
- NFNetwork For Young Adult Successgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +43%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCone grant, 2020 · $41k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds Wellness West Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Council for Health Justice ↗
- Who funds Community Health NFP ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Network For Young Adult Success ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Equal Hope ↗
- Who funds City Colleges of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Network Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Rush University Medical Center · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 MHNU Corporation 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.
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.
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