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Westlake Health Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $479k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $1,784,000 |
| MAYWOOD FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION | $1,370,000 |
| PRESENCE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $788,000 |
| SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL | $500,000 |
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS | $350,000 |
| SAINT ANN SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| LEYDEN FAMILY SERVICE | $250,000 |
| NAMI METRO SUBURBAN | $225,000 |
| UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO | $211,000 |
| LEWIS UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| WEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB | $180,000 |
| PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER | $150,000 |
| CHICAGO METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES | $150,000 |
| PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $150,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $6.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +24%
- MFMaywood Fine Arts Association7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +90% · 57% of their budget
- AOASPIRE OF ILLINOIS7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +126%
Funded once
- FHFENWICK HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3.6M
- PHPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEESone grant, 2019 · $400k
- LFLeyden Family Service & Mental Health Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +36%
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
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…
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
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.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Three Butterflies Sids Foundation Team Taylor. 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 45 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 100 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 DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE ↗
- Who funds Presence Behavioral Health ↗
- Who funds Maywood Fine Arts Association ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC ↗
- Who funds PCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Rush Oak Park Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK ↗
- Who funds WEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE WEST COOK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds THE WAY BACK INN INC ↗
- Who funds PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Benedictine University ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN CARROLL CHARITABLE WORKS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Healthy Communities Foundation · Community Memorial Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Dupage Community Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family 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 Westlake 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.
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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