Illinois · Private foundation
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.
- $9.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,784,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 59
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $153M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Westlake Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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 | 54 | $9.0M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $6.0M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $5.5M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $11M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $5.7M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $5.4M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican University | $5,162,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Suburban Primary Health Care Council D/B/A Access to Care | $5,000,000 | 7 | 50% |
| Fenwick High School | $3,645,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Presence Behavioral Health | $3,608,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Maywood Fine Arts Association | $2,665,000 | 7 | 57% |
| Aspire of Illinois | $2,600,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $2,368,067 | 4 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago | $1,353,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Nami Metro-Suburban Inc | $1,200,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Pcc Community Wellness Center | $1,190,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Westlake Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Westlake Health Foundation
- How much does Westlake Health Foundation give?
- Westlake Health Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $9,046,794 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 59 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Westlake Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (32%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Westlake Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Dominican University ($5.2M), Suburban Primary Health Care Council D/B/A Access to Care ($5.0M), Fenwick High School ($3.6M).
- Does Westlake Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Westlake Health Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Westlake Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Healthy Communities Foundation.
- Where is Westlake Health Foundation based?
- Westlake Health Foundation is based in IL.
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