Illinois · Nonprofit
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,682,819 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,520,678). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 153
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $203M
What Advocate Charitable Foundation does
Mission
See schedule o: to embrace the mission of advocate health care (a non-for-profit family of hospitals and caregivers), cultivate philanthropic partnerships, and increase charitable support of advocate health care's clinical, education and research programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General and clinical supportdonor gifts were used to support clinical programs by reimbursing operating expenses and by providing capital expenditures for equipment and facilities renovation and construction. Programs for special needs patients support included an adult down syndrome clinic, dental care for the disabled, childhood sexual trauma therapy, older adult services, pediatric development evaluations and treatments, and neonatal bereavement counseling. Clinic programs were enhanced through capital purchases such as equipping emergency rooms, renovations of surgical suites, expansions of cardiac and cancer care centers, diagnostic imaging equipment, and remodeling of pediatric intensive care units. Community outreach programs supported by gifts included school-based health clinics, dental programs for special needs populations, faith community partnerships including parish nursing, childhood immunizations, child development education, safety programs, patient family support, addiction counseling, health communication for the deaf, and asthma management.
$16,474,950 spentof which $16,277,692 as grants$810,910 earned by the program90% of program spendingScholarships and education programsdonor gifts were used to support education of medical students, residents and fellows, continuing education of medical staff physicians, pastoral care (hospital chaplain) education, administrative fellowships, accreditation training for paramedics, fellowships in health care administration, a nursing residency, and continuing education of advocate and community caregivers especially nurses and clinical technicians. Medical libraries and clinical education learning centers were enhanced by donor gifts. The system educated about 1,400 medical students, about 600 medical residents and fellows, about 100 pastoral care students, and more than 10,000 nurses and other caregivers. Scholarships are provided for continuing education of employees and to students in high school and college interested in health care occupations.
$776,424 spentof which $767,128 as grants4% of program spendingMedical researchdonor gifts were used to support both basic research in pediatric oncology and clinical research in the areas of adult oncology, cardiology, addiction medicine, renal disease, neonatal care, emergency medicine, nursing clinical procedures, and pediatric oncology.
$970,755 spentof which $959,132 as grants5% of program spendingSmall gifts are made to unrelated 501 (c)(3) charities as memorial gifts for deceased members of families of donors and advocate associates. Also included are the tax deductible portion of tickets to events sponsored by related 501 (c)(3) charities which donate to advocate programs.
$14,558 spentof which $14,385 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,236,687.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $190M to $207M (+9%).
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.
71% of ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Anthony T Smith
Director, chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $3.3M.
25 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 153 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 22% 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.
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; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
51% 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 $19M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is 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.
Against its field
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,682,819 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,520,678). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% 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 153 organizations giving $38,682,819 in grants to ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 84 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 153 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing