Illinois · Nonprofit
MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION
MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,219 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($300,499). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Westlake Health Foundationshared funders
- Vizient Inc Foundationportfolio match
- Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
91% of MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $108k → $190k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MIDWEST HEALTH 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
MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 50% — 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
55% of MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $244k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 281 organizations that share them.
- Westlake Health Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Vizient Inc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberici Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child's Playportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Lukes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Driven Brands Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Envision Healthcare Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Breast Cancer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Communities Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 131 organizations near you
- The Bersted Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 1 related entity
- Hinsdale Hospital Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,219 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($300,499). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $544,219 in grants to MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $300,499 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing