Illinois · Nonprofit
Erie Family Health Center Inc
Erie Family Health Center Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,608,285 to it, the largest being Northwestern University ($13,157,225). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $100M
What Erie Family Health Center Inc does
Mission
Motivated by the belief that healthcare is a human right, erie family health centers, inc. (erie) provides high quality, affordable care to support healthier people, families and communities. Erie's mission is an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, and for more than 60 years our commitment to equity and justice has remained steadfast. Our vision of "all people living their healthiest lives" demands that we examine and work to address the social drivers of health and structural barriers that are the root causes of inequity in our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Erie family health center (erie), a federally qualified health center, is a regional healthcare resource for more than 94,000 patients, mostly low-income, who are served in the chicago area at thirteen locations: seven large primary care centers, five school-based health centers and our teen center-the region's oldest and largest health center dedicated to adolescents. Since the onset of the covid-19 health crisis, erie has also offered telehealth services to assure continuous, safe access to essential healthcare. To empower our mission and vision and to fulfill erie's values of social justice, impact, excellence, relationships, and learning, erie provides a comprehensive array of health services to promote lifelong wellness among the community's most vulnerable members. Since growing from a one-room location in 1957, erie has sustained our commitment to helping meet the needs of residents in disinvested communities. Uniquely positioned to meet the needs of community members. Erie health centers offer a wide range of high quality, affordable services, including integrated medical, oral, and behavioral healthcare; chronic disease management; vaccines and flu shots; hiv testing; sti…
$105,494,078 spentof which $41,599 as grants$93,366,663 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $105,494,078.
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 2020 to 2021, from $65M to $89M (+36%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% · 2024 13% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of Erie Family Health Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lee Francis
President & CEO
Board chair
Brian P Marsella
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $6.8M.
16 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $14M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Erie Family Health Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Erie Family Health Center Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Erie Family Health Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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
Erie Family Health Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 Erie Family Health Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 30% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 35% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
57% of Erie Family Health Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
96% of Erie Family Health Center Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M 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.
Against its field
Erie Family Health Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Erie Family Health Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $121.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$121.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Erie Family Health Center Inc
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 2 related entities
- Erie Title Holding Company · exempt
- Erie Family Health Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Erie Family Health Center Inc: 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 Erie Family Health Center Inc?
- Erie Family Health Center Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,608,285 to it, the largest being Northwestern University ($13,157,225). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Erie Family Health Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $60,608,285 in grants to Erie Family Health Center Inc, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Erie Family Health Center Inc?
- Northwestern University is the largest funder on record, with $13,157,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Erie Family Health Center Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 96 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