Illinois · Nonprofit
Rush System for Health
Rush System for Health (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being JOINT RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $-1660609
What Rush System for Health does
Mission
The mission of Rush University System for Health is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities it serves through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research, and community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rush University System for Health (RUSH) is the sole-corporate member of Rush University Medical Center (RUMC), Rush Oak Park Hospital (ROPH), and Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. (RCMC), holding certain Reserved Powers over RUMC, ROPH, and RCMC to ensure a uniform vision and strategy across the Rush System, and is the ultimate parent entity for the Rush System. RUSH provides for the contract administration, governance, and analysis of the Employee Health Benefits program for the Rush System. RUSH also provides system support services which include decision support, quality analytics, knowledge management, Internal Audit, System Strategic Planning, and Digital and Information Services.
$283,154,871 spentof which $2,500 as grants$283,154,871 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $283,154,871.
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 2024 to 2025, from $41M to $82M (+98%).
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 Rush System for Health’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 9 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
William A Downe CM
Chairman/Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 Rush System for Health’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
Rush System for Health draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
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
Rush System for Health has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Rush System for Health
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Rush University Medical Center · exempt
- Rush Oak Park Hospital Inc · exempt
- Copley Memorial Hospital Inc · exempt
- Copley Ventures Inc · exempt
- Rush Copley Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rush System for Health: 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 Rush System for Health?
- Rush System for Health (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being JOINT RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rush System for Health have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to Rush System for Health.
- Who is the largest funder of Rush System for Health?
- JOINT RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rush System for Health 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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