Funding search · infant and child health · Illinois
Who funds infant and child health work in Illinois
13 funders have a record of paying for infant and child health work by Illinois recipients: 24 grants totaling $5.9M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Irving Harris Foundation ($140,000), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ($3.5M) and The Nima Taghavi Foundation ($20,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Illinois recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $50,000 to UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH — training leaders for the maternal and child health workforce
Delta Dental of Illinois FoundationNaperville, ILCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $348,900 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to MOBILE CARE CHICAGO — mobile care chicago's dental clinic serves in chicago and waukegan where the need for dentists that provide comprehensive pediatric oral health care is high. with grant funding, mo…
Largest: $1.5M to AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — to establish a process for identifying and addressing clinical algorithms with race adjustment in pediatric care
Largest: $832,239 to AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — maternal, neonatal and child health
AlliancechicagoChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $446,672 · through 2024Largest: $96,182 to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — ama investigating the relationship between problem list accuracy and attestation of review (real-list), pregnant people-infant surveillance for public health outcomes through inter…
Largest: $60,000 to INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO — to provide children and families in need with medical, dental and behavioral health care, plus child development, and social support services.
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $2.4M · through 2022Largest: $50,000 to Aunt Marthas Health and Wellness Inc — in support of aunt marthas integrated care model which includes primary health, behavioral health, oral health, child welfare, and community-based services that address social dete…
Telligen Community InitiativeWest Des Moines, IA
4 matching grants · $242,500 · through 2025Largest: $75,000 to SHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — shawnee health services (sh or shawnee) proposes to expand our obgyn clinic doula services to reach 200 expectant mothers, providing the education and support needed to positively …
Largest: $7,500 to ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO — pediatric care and research
Largest: $45,445 to UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH — 81872 investigating the impact of closures of obstetric units in urban and suburban new jersey on maternity care and maternal and infant health outcomes
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
2 matching grants · $800,000 · through 2022Largest: $400,000 to HEALTHCONNECT ONE — improve initiation and duration of breastfeeding rates among low-income communities by expanding community-based, peer-to-peer support models that diversify both the maternal and c…
Largest: $180,000 to Board of Trustees of the U of Illinois — expanding diversity in the child mental health workforce in chicago
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