HOW WE SUPPORT
We strive to be responsive to changing needs and circumstances in our region, and our grantmaking ensures that we address health inequities from a healing-informed and intersectional lens of racial and ethnic equity. We also believe that a mix of grantmaking and capacity building strategies that center community context creates a more functioning ecosystem in our region.
OUR GRANTMAKING PRIORITIES
ACCESS
to quality health services
ADDRESS
social determinants of health
ADVOCATE
for health-related policies & system change
AUGMENT
knowledge through capacity-building
Our Funding Area
As a health-conversion foundation, we fund a geographic region defined by the service area of MacNeal Hospital, from which we received our endowment in 2000. We also allocate the majority of funds to zip codes that rank lowest in our social determinants of health study. Our service area is comprised of 27 zip codes in western Cook County suburbs and the City of Chicago.
Our Impact
$24.9 Million
Since 2017
$8.8 Million
In 2020
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