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ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,172,714 to it, the largest being Orange County Community Foundation ($8,520,678). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$40M
Revenue FY2024
145
Funders on record
$37M
Grants received
$203M
Net assets
82/145 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%

Against its field

ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($34M) Expenses 100 ($40M) Net assets 100 ($189M)2018 Revenue 67 ($23M) Expenses 67 ($26M) Net assets 97 ($182M)2019 Revenue 135 ($46M) Expenses 83 ($33M) Net assets 104 ($196M)2020 Revenue 107 ($36M) Expenses 82 ($33M) Net assets 97 ($183M)2021 Revenue 130 ($44M) Expenses 87 ($34M) Net assets 103 ($194M)2022 Revenue 29 ($9.8M) Expenses 45 ($18M) Net assets 98 ($186M)2023 Revenue 113 ($38M) Expenses 83 ($33M) Net assets 101 ($191M)2024 Revenue 118 ($40M) Expenses 71 ($28M) Net assets 108 ($203M)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (71)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.5M
17
$3.4M
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$13M
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$3.7M
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$9.9M
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$7.9M
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$5.5M
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$12M
24
11
months of
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $3.3M.

23 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $41M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Advocate Health Care Network). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

23%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 27% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 21% · 2022 26% · 2023 19%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

38% of ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

52% of ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Illinois funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 145 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 2%Fundraising 33%

Governance

14
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

64%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 23 related entities

  • Advocate North Side Health Network · exempt
  • Advocate Health & Hospitals Corporation · exempt
  • Ehs Home Health Care Service Inc · exempt
  • Meridian Hospice · exempt
  • Hispanocare Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,172,714 to it, the largest being Orange County Community Foundation ($8,520,678). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $37,172,714 in grants to ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
Orange County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $8,520,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 145funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing