Illinois · Private foundation
Washington Square Health Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $667k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Washington Square Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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 | 51 | $667k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $675k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $477k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $574k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $583k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $588k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $673k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $655k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $613,729 | 9 | 0% |
| A Silver Lining Foundation | $378,750 | 9 | 10% |
| Gilda's Club Chicago | $303,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $292,456 | 6 | 0% |
| Advocate Charitable Foundation | $182,082 | 9 | 0% |
| Elea Institute | $132,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Roseland Community Hospital Association | $128,007 | 3 | 0% |
| La Rabida Children's Hospital | $114,245 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Chesed Fund | $112,588 | 7 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Washington Square Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Coleman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Dr Scholl Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Washington Square Health Foundation with peer funders
About Washington Square Health Foundation
- How much does Washington Square Health Foundation give?
- Washington Square Health Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $667,212 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Washington Square Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (75%), Human Services (6%), Education (3%).
- Who are Washington Square Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($614k), A Silver Lining Foundation ($379k), Gilda's Club Chicago ($304k).
- Does Washington Square Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Washington Square Health Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Square Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Circle of Service Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Washington Square Health Foundation based?
- Washington Square Health Foundation is based in IL.
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