Illinois · Nonprofit
Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency
Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,160 to it, the largest being University of Chicago Medical Center ($92,660). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency does
Mission
Our mission is to combat systemic injustice by addressing the longstanding challenges faced by underserved communities, including poor healthcare, low health literacy, violence, and limited access to quality healthcare providers. In recognizing the challenges faced by these communities, we understand that increasing representation in medicine and providing marginalized communities with essential resources are vital steps in combatting these issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Delivering services in the Chicago Southside and Westside neighboehoods, which have historically been disporportionately umpacted by gun violence and health disparities.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $44k to $18k (−58%).
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.
100% of Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $59k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency’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
Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency: 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 Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency?
- Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,160 to it, the largest being University of Chicago Medical Center ($92,660). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $149,160 in grants to Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency?
- University of Chicago Medical Center is the largest funder on record, with $92,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Medical Careers Exposure and Emergency 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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