Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,051,316 to it, the largest being ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ($7,887,708). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $886k
What Illinois Hospital Research & Educational Foundation does
Mission
To promote the continuing education of hospital and other healthcare personnel and to provide grants to hospitals which will assist in the improvement of healthcare.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
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$1,322 spent$2,925 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,322.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.9M to $837k (−71%).
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.
0% of ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Arthur J Wilhelmi
Chairman/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $853k → $2.9M.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 82% · 2019 76% · 2020 58% — 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
29% of ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 FY2020, 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
100% of ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL 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
16% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Illinois Health and Hospital Association · exempt
- Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety · exempt
- McHc Chicago Hospital Council · exempt
- Association Venture Corporation · corp_trust
- Association Management Resources · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL 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 ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,051,316 to it, the largest being ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ($7,887,708). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $11,051,316 in grants to ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP is the largest funder on record, with $7,887,708 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL 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 10 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