Illinois · Nonprofit
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,066,664 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($5,800,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $0
What Digestive Health Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the Digestive Health Foundation is to raise critical funds to support new research and continue educational activities at northwestern memorial hospital's digestive health center. Continued on schedule o.all funds will support the digestive health center's continued (see sch. O) efforts to provide integrated and coordinated resources for outstanding medical care, medical and patient education, and research toward the prevention, diagnosis, and treatement of digestive diseases.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To support northwestern medicine digestive health center through funding medical research and educational programming.
$1,412,420 spentof which $1,412,420 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,412,420.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $9.8M to $0 (−100%).
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.
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
Diane Saltoun
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $757k → $937k.
14 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 88% · 2019 63% · 2020 72% · 2021 21% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like DIGESTIVE HEALTH 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIGESTIVE HEALTH 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,066,664 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($5,800,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $10,066,664 in grants to DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIGESTIVE HEALTH 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 76 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing