Illinois · Nonprofit
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,833,294 to it, the largest being LYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($11,530,055). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Anticoagulation Forum Incportfolio match
- Hemophilia Foundation of Michiganportfolio match
- The Children's Oncology Groupportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Northwestern Memorial Hospital leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
44% of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
94% of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Anticoagulation Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hemophilia Foundation of Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Oncology Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mass Hospital Research & Educationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Foundation of the Americanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Ralph & Marian Falk Medical Research Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthnetwork Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Academic Pediatric Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Research and Educational Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Light Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Multiple Myeloma Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for Henry Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northwestern Memorial Hospital: 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 Northwestern Memorial Hospital?
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,833,294 to it, the largest being LYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($11,530,055). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northwestern Memorial Hospital have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $6,833,294 in grants to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northwestern Memorial Hospital?
- LYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,530,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northwestern Memorial Hospital 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, and the filings of 29funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing