Foundations that fund health care in Illinois
These 25 foundations made grants to health care in Illinois in the most recent IRS filing I have for each. None of them ticked the box for giving only to preselected organizations, and each filing gives application instructions or a website. That doesn't prove a foundation takes applications, and some on this list may not. The text below is copied from the filings, most of them for tax year 2024, so check a foundation's website or call before you apply.
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Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
- $500,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: Capital
- $200,000 to Sinai Health System, Chicago: Program
- $150,000 to Community Health Nfp, Chicago: General operating
How to apply: Visit https://www.crownfamilyphilanthropies.org to apply online
Deadlines: Visit https://www.crownfamilyphilanthropies.org for more information
Restrictions: Visit https://www.crownfamilyphilanthropies.org for more information
Lloyd A Fry Foundation
- $125,000 to Esperanza Health Centers, Chicago: For support of the chicago safety net learning collaborative
- $65,000 to Access Community Health Network, Chicago: For the integrated health home program, care coordination for patients with serious...
- $60,000 to Sinai Health System, Chicago: For support of the community health worker support program
How to apply: Please visit: https://www.fryfoundation.org/how-to-apply/overview/
Deadlines: Please visit: https://www.fryfoundation.org/how-to-apply/deadlines/
Restrictions: Please visit: https://www.fryfoundation.org/how-to-apply/overview/
Polk Bros Foundation Inc
- $170,000 to Erie Family Health Center, Chicago: Health
- $125,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: Health
- $75,000 to Sinai Health System, Chicago: Health
How to apply: Application form available from foundation office and website
Deadlines: Continuous
Restrictions: Must be organization exempt under sec 501(c)(3)
Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation
- $100,000 to Esperanza Health Centers, Chicago: High-quality, comprehensive care for medically fragile seniors, allowing them to avoid...
- $70,000 to Heartland Alliance Health, Chicago: An integrated model of care for youth experiencing homelessness that includes behavioral...
- $60,000 to Asian Human Services Family Health Center, Chicago: Towards the salary of a medical assistant dedicated to improving vaccination rates for...
How to apply: Grants must be submitted via the online grants management system. All grant requests must have measurable goals and objectives and serve the medically underserved.
Deadlines: Grants are disbursed four times a year. See website for submission deadlines.
Restrictions: Must be organization exempt from income tax under 501(c)(3) and designated as public charity under 509(a)(1) or 509(a)(2).
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
- $439,406 to Methodist Medical Center Illinois, Peoria: Greater Peoria Area Youth Mental Health Initiative
- $437,500 to Chestnut Health Systems Inc, Bloomington: St. Clair County Systems of Care Coordination
- $433,928 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: BRIDGES: Using BRIDGES to Address Intergenerational Trauma, Close the Clinic-Community...
How to apply: Review the open RFP(s) on our website and determine whether your project is a match to the projects being sought for funding. Submit a Letter of Inquiry or Proposal (based on the specific RFP timeline) with the required information by the posting deadline. Be sure to attach all...
Deadlines: Please visit our website for currently open RFPs. Submission deadlines vary from year to year.
Restrictions: You must be either (1) an organization that has been determined by the IRS to be an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), that is a public charity described in Section...
George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities
- $500,000 to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago: Social assistance
- $10,000 to Community Health Nfp, Chicago: Social assistance
- $7,500 to Will Grundy Medical Clinic, Joliet: Social assistance
How to apply: No formal application form is required. Submit letter summarizing request and contaning legal name of organization along with following: irs determination letter summary of specified project or need history of organization intended use of funds list of members of the board of...
Deadlines: April 30th of each calendar year in order to be considered for funding for the next calendar year
Restrictions: Grants are only approved for 501c3 organizations
Washington Square Health Foundation
- $37,447 to Roseland Community Hospital, Chicago: PRI Foregiveness
- $12,500 to Near North Health Service Corporation, Chicago: Integrated Mobile Healthcare and Outreach
- $10,000 to Lead Abatement Resource Center, Chicago: Pathways in Lead-Children and Communities: Funding for the Elimination of Childhood and...
How to apply: Visit the website for the organization's grant guidelines & application: http://wshf.org/general-guidelines/
Deadlines: Grant submissions were accepted on a continuous rolling basis for either the 12/1 or 6/1 deadlines.
Community Memorial Foundation
- $470,856 to Pillars Community Health, La Grange: Regional Health Agenda
- $118,248 to Alivio Medical Center, Chicago: Regional Health Agenda
- $46,755 to Suburban Primary Health Care Council, Westchester: Responsive
How to apply: Grants awarded though the regional health and human services agenda and responsive grants program advance the foundation's vision of transforming the western suburbs into the healthiest region of the country. Eligible organizations must submit an online letter of intent (loi)...
Deadlines: March 15 and september 15
Restrictions: Cmf awards grants to organizations described in irc section 501(c)(3) and further as public charities (except for certain organizations described in irc section 509(a)(3) delivering services within the 27 cmf communities. Responsive grants...
Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundation
- $50,000 to Heartland Alliance Health, Chicago: Building a culture of health on chicago's south side
- $50,000 to Chicago South Side Birth Center, Glenwood: General operating support
- $30,000 to Sinai Health System, Chicago: General operating support
How to apply: Grant form used
Deadlines: July
Restrictions: The field of healthcare in the greater chicagoland area
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
- $5,680 to Als United Greater Chicago, Chicago: Employee matching gift
- $5,000 to Als United Greater Chicago, Chicago: Ibc 2024
- $5,000 to Bounce Childrens Foundation, Deerfield: Bounce back kits - 2 days
How to apply: Concept papers; form and information can be found at www.meaf.org
Deadlines: National grants: july 15; matching grants: year round
Restrictions: Grants limited to programs benefiting disabled young people
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- $1,884,128 to Illinois Public Health Institute, Chicago: 80167 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office, 2022-2025
- $500,000 to Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, Chicago: 81461 supporting the 2024 black directors health equity agenda national summit -- health...
- $186,770 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: 79308 leveraging disparate datasets to close gaps in the current approach to caring for...
How to apply: Most of rwjf's grants are made through targeted grant programs and funding partnerships. Rwjf's funding priorities and calls for proposals are described on www.rwjf.org.
Deadlines: No deadlines, except when foundation issues a call for proposal (cfp) or request for proposal (rfp).
Restrictions: Rwjf is dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime and pave the way, together, to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. We are a national philanthropy that advances transformative systems...
Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging
- $110,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: An 18-month grant to support older people experiencing homelessness by leveraging the...
- $45,000 to Illinois Public Health Institute, Chicago: A one-year grant to bridge the public health and aging sectors, advance a new state-level...
- $25,000 to Dupage Health Coalition, Carol Stream: A one-year grant to provide debt relief, financial education, and individual counseling...
How to apply: Our website www.rrf.org contains the form in which applications should be submitted along with eligibility criteria, exclusions and letters of inquiry with required inclusions. Web inquiries should be addressed to info@rrf.org. Application forms can be downloaded in word for...
Deadlines: February 1, may 1, and august 1
Restrictions: Our website www.rrf.org contains the eligibility requirements, restrictions or limitations for all major grant programs. The major grant programs are as follows: advocacy; direct service; professional education; research; organizational...
Helen V Brach Foundation
- $20,000 to St Bernard Hospital, Chicago: For Dental Center which provides oral health services to underserved children/families,...
- $15,000 to Community Health, Chicago: To provide free comprehensive health care to low-income uninsured and underinsured...
- $15,000 to Canine Therapy Corps, Chicago: To support animal-assisted interventions, including direct program costs, as well as...
How to apply: Application form, available upon request
Deadlines: December 31 for consideration in year ending March 31
Restrictions: Must be organization exempt under Sect 501c3
The Simon Family Foundation
- $200,000 to Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Chicago: To further the exempt purpose of the organization
- $100,000 to Northshore University Healthsystem, Evanston: To further the exempt purpose of the organization
- $70,000 to The Jackson Chance Foundation, Chicago: To further the exempt purpose of the organization
How to apply: Written statement of charitable purpose
Best Walter & Edith Foundation
- $20,000 to Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington: Program support
- $20,000 to Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago: Program support
- $5,000 to Lemons of Love, Des Plaines: Program support
How to apply: Proposals may be submitted, at any time, in writing to foundation administrator.
Deadlines: Year round applications accepted
Restrictions: To organizations which give substantial benefits to children including care, treatment, education, support and health of children. May include indirect benefits as well.
The John A Hartford Foundation Inc
- $897,165 to Health Research and Educational Trust, Chicago: Spreading the age-friendly health systems social movement
- $586,535 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: Ready, willing and able: caring for caregivers in age-friendly health systems -...
- $269,648 to Home Centered Care Institute, Schaumburg: Moving and scaling home-based primary care, phase iii: quality, training, advocacy and...
How to apply: Applications should be mailed to the president of the foundation at the above address.
Deadlines: No deadlines
Restrictions: Grants only to exempt organizations under 501 (c)(3) of the irs code, and that are not private foundations within the meaning of section 509 (a) or a state or political subdivision thereof. No grants to individuals. Our programmatic areas...
Beatrice P Delany Char Tr Xxxxx7003
- $100,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: General
- $100,000 to Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago: General
- $50,000 to Fenix Family Health Center, Highwood: General
How to apply: The foundation does not employ standard forms for grant applications. It is the practice of the committee to consider each application on a case by case basis.
Deadlines: There is no submission deadline.
Restrictions: The grants are to be used for the general purpose of the donee.
Sirius Fund
- $100,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: To support charitable purpose
- $2,500 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: To support charitable purpose
- $2,500 to Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Chicago: To support charitable purpose
How to apply: A letter requesting a contribution is sufficient.
Restrictions: Organizations must be educational, religious or charitable as defined under irc sec 170(c).
Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust
- $30,000 to Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, Chicago: Communication Skills Training
- $15,000 to Michael Reese Health Trust, Elgin: general operating support
- $7,500 to Ba Nia Inc, Chicago: support of Earl's Garden and Mae's Kitchen
How to apply: Information and materials that should be submitted along with an application include: written proposals, irs letter of determination under section 509(a), current budget, audited financial statements, and descriptive literature. The application is available online at the...
Deadlines: Applications are received throughout the year. Deadlines usually are in jan, may and june.
Restrictions: * The Trusts do not fund projects that promote or proselytize any religion. While we do fund the projects of faith-based organizations, those projects must be secular in nature. * The Trusts do not fund organizations that discriminate on...
Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008
- $20,000 to Canine Therapy Corps, Chicago: To support dog training
- $19,000 to Pcc Community Wellness Center, Oak Park: Support diabetes education
- $10,000 to Old Irving Park Community Clinic, Chicago: Support general operation
How to apply: See attached guidelines
Restrictions: See attached guidelines
Chris & Irene Seth Family Foundation
- $20,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: Medical reseach and treatment
- $2,000 to Christmas Without Cancer, Oak Lawn: Cancer research and treatment
- $2,000 to Pilot Light, Chicago: Food education
How to apply: In writing; to contact person; describe org'n & purpose
The Allstate Foundation
- $1,000 to Northwestern Memorial Foundation, Crystal Lake: Employee helping hands
- $1,000 to Lilac Tree Resources for Divorcing Women, Evanston: Honorarium grant for heather greenwell
- $1,000 to Cops 4 Cancer Inc, Peru: Agent - individual hh
How to apply: Letter of proposal
Deadlines: Proposal reviewed as received
Restrictions: Must be within the united states
Frankel Julius N Foundation
- $1,366,054 to Northwestern Memorial Foundation, Chicago: Program support
- $250,000 to Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago: General operating purposes
How to apply: The frankel foundation gives grants to qualified charitable organizations. Co-trustees review written grant proposals on a regular basis, and meet to discuss grant requests at least five times per year
Deadlines: Proposals may be submitted at any time in writing to the frankel foundation administrator.
Restrictions: Charitable organizations which benefit medical research, underprivileged persons, and cultural appreciation
Butler Family Foundation
- $165,000 to Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Assoc, Lake Forest: General charitable, religious, educational or scientific purpose of the donee organization
- $8,000 to Womans Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago: General charitable, religious, educational or scientific purpose of the donee organization
How to apply: There are no standard application forms. A letter requesting a contribution is sufficient.
Deadlines: There are no submission deadlines.
Restrictions: Organizations must be educational, religious, or charitable as defined under irc section 170(c).
Carylon Julius and Marcie Hemmelstein Foundation
- $100,000 to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago: Charity
- $25,000 to Sinai Health System, Chicago: Education
How to apply: In writing, include purpose of contribution
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