Illinois · Nonprofit
HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP
HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP (Illinois) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,450,686 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,769,950). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Health and Medicine Policy Research Group does
Mission
(see schedule o)an independent policy center that conducts research, educates andcollaborates with other groups to advocate policies and impact healthsystems to improve the health status of all people. The mission is to promote social justice and challenge inequities in health and health care. The organization derives its uniqueness from the diversity of issues it addresses and the single-mindedness of its vision: an equitable health care system which provides access to quality, affordable healthcare for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community health workers (chw's)/workforce - our program aims to utilize community health workers (chw's)/workforce and address the ongoing local need to increase awareness of health and human service resources, connect people to needed services, and promote healthcare workforce development. We work to build a unified, sustainable, and equitable public health workforce in the chicagoland region.
$1,026,942 spent41% of program spendingAdverse childhood experiences (ace's) - health & medicine is the lead convener of the illinois adverse childhood experiences response collaborative, a group of multi-sectoral stakeholders committed to expanding the understanding of trauma and its impact on people's lives. Through advocacy and mobilization efforts, we work to put the issues of aces and resilience on the forefront of the equity agenda in illinois.
$363,095 spent15% of program spendingSchweitzer - health & medicine's chicago area schweitzer fellows program cultivates aspiring health and human services professionals to be informed, concerned, and involved with addressing health inequities. Each year, the schweitzer program provides 28 exceptional students with opportunities to design and implement projects to improve the health and well-being of underserved chicago communities.
$360,889 spent15% of program spendingArea health education center (ahec) - a workforce development program designed to recruit, train and retain a health profession workforce committed to underserved populations, with a special focus on promoting health career to minorities and underserved populations.
$256,492 spent10% of program spendingCenter for public health equity - organized to identify gaps in needed health services and funding while developing policy recommendations to strengthen health care in the region and efforts to develop health equity programs.
$175,050 spent7% of program spendingLong term care - the center for long-term care reform promotes equitable aging within communities for all illinoisans at all ages. The center works toward a just society that enables people to age well across the entire life course and an equitable system of long-term services and support so that people can live according to their own goals and values, without exploitation or unmet needs. The center advocates for caregiving that supports both the needs and rights of older individuals and caregivers.
$170,740 spent7% of program spendingFiscal sponsorships - health & medicine acts as a fiscal sponsor for several small organizations like che cook county, chicago south side birth center, chicagoland equity network, vaccine brigade, and rush university for health & social care intergration.
$124,293 spent$22,651 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,477,501.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $3.1M (+41%).
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 14% · 2018 5% · 2019 11% · 2020 8% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Chief executive
Margie Schaps
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $381k → $1.1M.
11 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 64% · 2019 40% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — 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
32% of HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
95% of HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP?
- HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP (Illinois) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,450,686 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,769,950). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $9,450,686 in grants to HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,769,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP 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.
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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 51 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