How much did Washington Square Health Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of Washington Square Health Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

membershipdirector advocatedirector nightnight ministrydirector sonomaspecial cdpcdp scientific

2020

equipment purchaseimprovingfiredonationscamp independencewood daledevelopmental

2021

officer cancercancer memorypri forgivenesscovidpatientcommitteeyouth

2022

director bensenville-woodbensenville-wood dalefriedemaneyedale foodpreventionbreast

2023

roselanddirector companioncompanion connnectionconnnection horsehorse rescueunitwilliam

2024

church mindfulnessmindfulness wellwell ministryministry memorymemory joanjoan bierschchicago diabetes

2025

expandingladycarmelmedical roomroom conversionimmigrantwestminster presbyterian

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k40 grants · $90k
$10k–50k21 grants · $469k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

ChesedChicago$55,000
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab$43,478
Chicago Diabetes Project$38,617
Roseland Community Hospital$37,447
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$36,114
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$30,000
Chicago Diabetes Project$30,000
St Anthony Hospital$30,000
Primo Center For Women and Children$28,674
La Rabida Children's Hospital$25,000
Gilda's Club Chicago$22,750
Wauconda Fire Rescue Association$20,000
Mcdermott Center dba Haymarket Center$18,168
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group$17,160
Chicago Hearing Society$16,761

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Washington Square Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Washington Square Health Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 74 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+26%

Still filing today

55%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
7× · 2018–2024 · $276k · revenue +44%
RC
Roseland Community Hospital
3× · 2021–2024 · $128k · revenue +99%
CC
Chicago Chesed Fund
6× · 2018–2023 · $93k · revenue +87%

Funded once

SR
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
one grant, 2021 · $50k
CO
Cellmates on the Run Foundation
one grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue -78%
MS
Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center Chicago
one grant, 2023 · $43k

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.

Presence Chicago Hospitals Network

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

Human Services

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

The organization provides various services to the hospital community and the general public, including the operation of the illinois poison control center.

Health

Northern Illinois Medical Center

To provide quality health care services with innovative and responsible use of resources and promote wellness for the mchenry county area.

Health

Illinois Children's Healthcare

Human Services

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

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.

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Rush Oak Park Hospital Inc

Rush Oak Park Hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate health care service that promotes the dignity and well-being of the people we serve.

Health

Chicago Family Health Center Inc

To provide healthcare services to all patients

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Children's Hospital of Chicago Faculty Practice Plan Inc

Children's hospital of chicago faculty practice plan, inc. ("fpp") engages in charitable activities to support the clinical, research and educational programs of ann & robert h. lurie's children's hospital of chicago and its affiliate…

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Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation

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

Endeavor Health Medical Group

Endeavor Health Medical Group (EHMG) follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research and the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Botanical Garden. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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%0/88

the rest of the field

13%

5,346/42,403

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.

06the grantee network

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

82/83

Grantees still filing

61/83

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,866,547Health$1,385,543Human Services$270,542Education$131,121Recreation & Sports$57,000Philanthropy$53,609Crime & Legal$45,000

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.

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.

Circle of Service FoundationIL41× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan

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 organisation Washington Square Health 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

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: A Silver Lining Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 900097495 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on A Silver Lining Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Washington Square Health Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington Square Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Washington Square Health Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington Square Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph