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The Medline Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$166k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Civil Rights$752kEducation$380kHealth$377kHuman Services$313kPhilanthropy$239kFood & Nutrition$157kCrime & Legal$148kInternational$133kOther$0
02FY2022 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY$52,000
WAUKEGAN TO COLLEGE$27,000
ELLIE FUND FOR BREAST CANCER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$11,043
ANN'S PLACE$10,000
MUNDELEIN HS BAND BOOSTERS$5,000
LAREDO AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION$5,000
OPTIONS INC$5,000
MONTGOMERY LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
SNOWCAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES$5,000
FOUNDATION OF ABILITIES FIRST NY INC$5,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF FL$2,500
HEART OF THE CITY$2,056
RICHMOND HILL BOOSTER CLUB$1,000
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 (FY20–22, $401k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 8%WOMENS CENTER YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 12%FOUNDATION OF ABILITIES FIRST NY INC: $5k → 9%FAMILIES OF FANA-WNY INC: $3k → 13%GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN: $100 → 17%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%SNOWCAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $5k → 12%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%THE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $250k → 17%NEIGHBORIMPACT: $5k → 10%THE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%OPTIONS INC: $5k → 20%CHI-CARE: $3k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%HACES: $10k → 8%HACES: $5k → 8%TOTAL LINK 2 COMMUNITY: $3k → 14%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 8%ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $5k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $5k → 8%COOL MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%RENEW COMMUNITIES NFP: $3k → 8%RENEW COMMUNITIES NFP: $3k → 8%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

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IL
WI
NY
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OR
IA
OH
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CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
GA
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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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 28 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
97

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $121k · revenue +53%
  • OW
    ONE WORLD SURGERY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $119k · revenue +41%
  • CASA LAKE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $53k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -65%
  • TF
    TIDES FOUNDATION (BLM SUPPORT FUND)
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -54%

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
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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2
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
3
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
6
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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7
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

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.

Health
8
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
9
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
10
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
11
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Hammond. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence ServicesYouth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Senior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community College Foundatio…Community Food PantriesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,454

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

101 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. 101 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/101
Grantees still filing
74/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION (BLM SUPPORT FUND) — $250,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION (BLM SUPPORT FUND)Individual grant recipient — $141,365 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE COUNTY CRISISA SAFE PLACE — $70,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY CRISISA SAFE PLACEPRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $48,800 · Other+75 more — $502,033 · Other+75 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN L…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMothers Trust Foundation — $15,000 · Human ServicesPREVAIL CA — $15,000 · Human ServicesHispanic American Community Education & Services — $15,000 · Human Services+18 more — $86,850 · Human Services+18 moreUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $250,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO C…Waukegan To College NFP — $52,000 · EducationWaukegan To Co…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVER…+2 more — $20,000 · Education+2 moreNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $250,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL …CASA LAKE COUNTY INC — $53,000 · Civil RightsCASA LAKE CO…+1 more — $1,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Heart Association Inc — $121,000 · HealthAmerican H…ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $25,000 · HealthATLANTA RO…GILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · HealthGILDA'S CL…GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO — $25,000 · HealthGILDA'S CL…Equal Hope — $18,000 · HealthEqual HopeMICHELLES PLACE CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $15,000 · HealthMICHELLES …+8 more — $27,050 · Health+8 moreUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $185,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSHOR…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI — $17,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…United Way of Central Florida Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $9,000 · PhilanthropyONE WORLD SURGERY — $119,400 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $12,500 · International+3 more — $6,050 · International
Other$1,062,198Human Services$401,850Education$347,000Civil Rights$304,000Health$256,050Philanthropy$241,750International$137,950

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 budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $185,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $121,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY — $119,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC — $53,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP — $52,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $48,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA CARING PLUS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEqual Hope — $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPREVAIL CA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHELLES PLACE CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHispanic American Community Education & Services — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART IMPACT PROJECT NOT FOR PROFIT — $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetLaredo Regional Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLatinos Progresando — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetANNS PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRiverview Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUnited Way of Central Florida Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY — $7,056 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NO MORE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRENEW COMMUNITIES NFP — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNikolas Ritschel Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFamily Access Network Foundation — $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTGOMERY LITTLE LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetALLENDALE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Lake County Commu…John and Kathleen Sch…Baxter International …The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationTrustmark FoundationUnited Way of Lake Co…First Bank Chicago Fo…Northwestern Memorial…Healthcare Foundation…George M Eisenberg Fo…
The Lake County Community FoundationIL38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Baxter International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities

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 The Medline Foundation 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 · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
  • Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 The Medline Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Medline Foundation 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 136 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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