Illinois · Nonprofit
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 302 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,963,898 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,605,057). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $447M
- Funders on record
- 302
- Grants received
- $155M
- Net assets
- $860M
What Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago does
Mission
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) was founded in 1951 as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation. In 2017 RIC with 182 beds, began doing business as the Shirley Ryan Abilitylab (SRAlab) and moved to a new building with 242 licensed beds. This move brought not only a physical change of address but a whole new model to the field of rehabilitation. Upon opening the 1.2-million-square-foot SRAlab became the first-ever "translational" rehabilitation research hospital in which clinicians, scientists, innovators and technologists work together in the same space, surrounding patients, discovering new approaches and applying (or "translating") research in real time. SRAlab's vision is to advance human ability through science and research. The organization has earned the distinction of being named the nation's #1-ranked provider of comprehensive physical medicine and rehabilitation care to patients from around the world every year since the designation's inception in 1992 by U.S. News & World Report - a record for any U.S. hospital. In addition to being a large rehabilitation hospital, SRAlab is the nation's largest rehabilitation research enterprise, advancing the field globally…
$325,708,871 spent$378,641,775 earned by the program83% of program spendingResearch Program: SRAlab's Research Program is the world's largest physical rehabilitation research enterprise in pursuit of clinical advancement through scientific discovery. In Fiscal Year 2025, the Research Program had approximately 200 research projects underway, funded by more than $188 million in grants and donations from both private and public sources. Its experts regularly publish research in the world's foremost medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and its European equivalent, The Lancet, and it is home to federal research designations to develop cutting-edge solutions for patients. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's research enterprise serves patients with the most severe, complex conditions - from traumatic brain and spinal cord injury to stroke, amputation and cancer-related impairment. The organization is renowned for breakthroughs in biomedical, neural, mechanical, and electrical engineering; bionics; molecular/cellular biology; robotics; and pharmacotherapeutics. All Shirley Ryan AbilityLab research directly addresses challenges faced by one or more of the patient populations served. Research into urgent patient problems is…
$50,313,298 spentof which $10,342,595 as grants$7,984,668 earned by the program13% of program spendingMedical Education: The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine (Dept of PM&R) is housed within SRAlab, which has one of the largest and most highly respected residency programs in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the country. Resident physicians spend three to four years rotating through the Dept of PM&R, taught by SRAlab physicians who are experts in this specialty, In FY 2025 SRAlab trained 52 residents. The SRAlab medical education program also provides opportunities for fourth year medical students from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to rotate in a rehabilitation setting to gain experience with spinal cord injury, brain injury, amputee rehabilitation, cancer rehabilitation, medically complex rehabilitation, and pediatric rehabilitation. There are approximately 180 medical students from Northwestern that rotate with us and an additional 50 medical students from other medical schools nationally that rotate with us. Fellowships: SRAlab offers 5 physician sub-specialty fellowships, funded primarily by donations, in Sports Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pediatric Rehabilitation, Brain Injury…
$11,338,029 spent$1,927,007 earned by the program3% of program spendingSRAlab's Henry B. Betts LIFE Center is a virtual and multimedia education center providing patient education and consumer health information for patients, families, staff and the community. Everything in the collection relates in some way to people living with a wide range of cognitive and physical impairments, chronic conditions or diseases affecting function. The website enables individuals across the globe to have access to current, peer-reviewed patient education and consumer health resources with real-time updates, printing on demand and a dashboard to save favorite resources for easy access. Resources such as the LIFE Center help individuals, and their families navigate the intricacies of health care and minimize the complexity of relevant health information. Having access to information empowers people to partner with their health care team to make the best choices for themselves, their families and engage in life-long learning. The LIFE Center's resources are organized according to eight topic areas: Medical Information and Care, Caregiving and Equipment, Housing and Transportation, Education and Employment, Support and Wellness, Recreation and Leisure, Finance and Law and…
$6,061,704 spent$1,068,501 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $393,421,902.
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 $1.3B to $1.2B (−10%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
M Jude Reyes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 72 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $13M → $24M.
28 of 302 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 302 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
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
44% 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 Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 29% — 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
48% of Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
63% of Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $144.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$117.3M
- Department of Defense$23.5M
- National Science Foundation$3.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$717k
- Department of Justice$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Medical Services SRALAB · disregarded
- Rehabilitation Institute Inc · exempt
- Pathways Foundation · exempt
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Medical Rehabilitation Enterprises · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago?
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 302 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,963,898 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,605,057). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 302 organizations giving $154,963,898 in grants to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 179 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,605,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 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 302 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing