Illinois · Nonprofit
Rush University Medical Center
Rush University Medical Center (Illinois) receives grants from 520 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,674,570 to it, the largest being WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ($64,686,831). 320 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8B
- Funders on record
- 520
- Grants received
- $292M
- Net assets
- $3.3B
What Rush University Medical Center does
Mission
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In fiscal year 2025, the following program services were moved to Rush Medical Group as they continue to evolve to a more integrated Rush University System for Health. Physician Practices - A faculty practice plan, Rush University Medical Group, which employs more than 700 physicians and 300 advanced practice providers in more than 111 specialties and subspecialties, singularly focused on transforming health care and providing exceptional patient care. Eleven Rush specialties ranked among the top 50 in the U.S., including six in the top 20. Rush University Medical Center tied for No. 1 as the top hospital in Illinois. The Rush specialties ranked among the top 50 for 2024-2025 include Cancer, Cardiology, Diabetes and Endocrinology, ENT, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Gynecology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology and Lung Surgery and Urology.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Health Care: Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) is an academic medical center that brings together excellence in clinical care and research to address major health problems. The hospital operations of Rush University Medical Center are licensed by the State of Illinois to operate 678 beds and include the Johnston R. Bowman Health Center, which provides medical and rehabilitative care to older adults and people with short- and long-term disabilities, and Rush University Children's Hospital. According to COMPdata, RUMC is the fifth largest hospital provider in the eight county Chicago metropolitan area as measured by market share. In FY2025, RUMC provided patient care to 28,994 inpatients for a total of 163,180 patient days, 10,320 observation cases, and 59,266 emergency department visits. Rush University Medical Center has been named one of the nation's top hospitals, securing a spot on U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 Best Hospitals Honor Roll for the fifth straight year. Of the nearly 5,000 U.S. hospitals that U.S. News evaluated, Rush is among only 11% that earned a numerical ranking in a state or a medical specialty. Overall, Rush is in the top 1% of hospitals in the…
$1,698,213,385 spentof which $17,406,504 as grants$2,190,076,007 earned by the program79% of program spendingResearch: Because Rush is an academic medical center, research and clinical care come together in innovative and inspiring ways that have the power to transform lives. Even if research work starts in a laboratory, it won't stay there. Discoveries in Rush's labs lead to advances in patient care, while observations in clinical settings inspire research studies designed to improve the way we treat patients. This approach, known as translational research, has led to breakthroughs in patient care at Rush throughout the years. Investigators at Rush are involved in more than 500 projects, including hundreds of clinical studies to test the effectiveness and safety of new therapies and medical devices, as well as to expand scientific and medical knowledge. Total research awards in FY2025 topped $137 million.
$264,967,111 spentof which $28,263 as grants$199,216,826 earned by the program12% of program spendingEducation: Rush University (RU) is a health sciences university that includes Rush Medical College, the College of Nursing, and the College of Health Sciences. Founded in 1837, Rush Medical College has an acclaimed history as one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and continues to make major contributions to medical science and education through research and clinical trials. The College of Nursing is one of the nation's top-ranked nursing colleges with a national reputation for clinical excellence that helps make our graduates highly sought after by top health care employers around the country. The College of Health Sciences has been responsible for education and research in the allied health professions. The Medical Center also offers many highly selective residency and fellowship programs in medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. RU's unique practitioner-teacher model for health sciences education and research provides its students the opportunity to learn from world-renowned instructors who practice what they teach. With more than 40 degree and certificate programs and 60 postgraduate training programs, RU educated 2,769 students in FY2025. Rush…
$103,416,191 spentof which $6,800 as grants$79,777,094 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program services: Rush provides various services for the benefit of its patients and visitors, such as parking, food services and interpreter services. Rush also sponsors a number of programs in the community focused on improving health, expanding education in health-related careers, community-based research to reduce health disparities and initiatives to provide economic development and job creation. Rush programs influenced tens of thousands of lives in FY2025.
$78,862,462 spent$52,017,448 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,145,459,149.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.5B to $4.0B (+16%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of Rush University Medical Center’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. 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.
Chief executive
Omar B Lateef DO
President & Chief Executive Officer, RUSH
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 112 funders to 211 funders, grant income rose $20M → $33M.
37 of 520 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $65M from 26 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Chicago). These are real filings, and they are not money Rush University Medical Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Rush University Medical Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 520 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
Rush University Medical Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
57% 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 Rush University Medical Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 33% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — 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
45% of Rush University Medical Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
Rush University Medical Center draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
Rush University Medical Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Rush University Medical Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $699.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$672.7M
- Department of Defense$13.7M
- Department of Education$8.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$483k
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 Rush University Medical Center
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 37 related entities
- Health Delivery Management · disregarded
- Vyridian Revenue Management · disregarded
- Rush Oak Brook LLC · disregarded
- Rush Oak Brook ASC LLC · disregarded
- Rush 3D LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center?
- Rush University Medical Center (Illinois) receives grants from 520 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,674,570 to it, the largest being WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ($64,686,831). 320 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rush University Medical Center have?
- IRS filings report 520 organizations giving $291,674,570 in grants to Rush University Medical Center, 320 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rush University Medical Center?
- WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,686,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rush University Medical Center 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 520 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