Illinois · Public charity
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 advancements that create meaningful outcomes for our community and the world, working toward a more equitable…
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $134,310
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations University of Chicago Medical Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $1.3M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $1.4M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $835k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $602k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $482k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $511k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $427k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Heart Association Inc | $330,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Defender Charities Inc | $298,000 | 6 | 17% |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | $272,963 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $260,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Illinois Transplant Fund | $240,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chicago Family Health Center Foundation | $167,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Fathers Families Healthy Communities | $156,350 | 4 | 34% |
| Equal Hope | $154,261 | 2 | 3% |
| Illinois Transplant Fund | $150,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Public Allies Inc | $131,100 | 3 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
University of Chicago Medical Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · The Joyce Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women
How this is measured
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About University of Chicago Medical Center
- How much does University of Chicago Medical Center give?
- University of Chicago Medical Center reported 49 itemized grants totaling $1,265,433, out of $1,322,253 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does University of Chicago Medical Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (14%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are University of Chicago Medical Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Heart Association Inc ($330k), Chicago Defender Charities Inc ($298k), YWCA Metropolitan Chicago ($273k).
- Does University of Chicago Medical Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as University of Chicago Medical Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is University of Chicago Medical Center based?
- University of Chicago Medical Center is based in IL.
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