Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation
Accepts applications
Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation is a private foundation in Chicago, Illinois. In tax year 2024 it gave $3.3 million in 64 grants; the typical grant was $50,000 and the largest $100,000. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.
From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2024.
- Grants paid, 2024$3.3 million
- Number of grants64
- Typical grant$50,000
- Largest grant$100,000
- Assets$65.3 million
- New grantees55%
Giving in 2024 was up from $3.2 million the year before.
55% of its 2024 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, a sign it is open to new organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Number of grants | Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $3.1 million | 75 | $60.5 million |
| 2023 | $3.2 million | 71 | $63.2 million |
| 2024 | $3.3 million | 64 | $65.3 million |
How to apply
| Contact | Robert N Dileonardi 200 W Madison St 300, Chicago, IL 60606 |
|---|---|
| Phone or email | (312) 214-1521 |
| What to submit | 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). |
Foundation website IRS filings on ProPublica
What Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation funds
Where it gives
Its grants went to recipients in 2 states, the most to Illinois.
| State | Grants | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 63 | $3.3 million |
| District of Columbia | 1 | $5,300 |
Grants paid in 2024
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | To provide education and training on healthcare access to medically underserved individuals and health providers in cook, will, lake, and dupage counties, with a focus on chicago. | $100,000 |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | To support the shriver centers training, technical assistance, education, and outreach efforts to facilitate healthcare enrollment and access, improve health outcomes, and address social determinants of health. | $100,000 |
| The Chicago Community Foundation | Funding for a pooled fund that provides core grants and special initiative grants to support people who are medically underserved. | $100,000 |
| The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence | To improve the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, advocacy, & connecting community with providers. | $100,000 |
| Refugeeone | General operating support for this agency that supports some of our communitys most vulnerable residents. | $89,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | To support the salary of an advanced practice nurse who provides comprehensive, compassionate sexual and reproductive health care at ppils austin health center. | $80,000 |
| Equal Hope | An education and nurse navigation program aimed at improving diagnostic follow-up and comprehensive cancer care for women undergoing screening mammograms in chicago's safety net hospitals. | $75,000 |
| Health & Medicine Policy Research Group | To support the schweitzer fellows program and fellows for life initiative, which work to enhance health and well-being in underserved chicago communities through direct service projects led by emerging health professionals. | $75,000 |
| Community Health Partnership of Illinois | To engage a family medicine nurse practitioner to expand primary care access to medically vulnerable adults and children in kane and mchenry counties via a mobile unit. | $70,000 |
| Connections for the Homeless | Onsite healthcare services in north suburban cook county to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. | $70,000 |
| Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago | To support the salary of the health services case manager who will assist medically underserved individuals with their medical and mental health needs, including navigation of health care systems and health education. | $70,000 |
| Nourishing Hope | Free, clinical mental health counseling to individuals and couples in chicago. This program is essential to our holistic approach to addressing food insecurity. | $65,000 |
| Beds Plus Inc | To support the salary of a medical respite manager and to purchase medical equipment for this agency that serves homeless individuals in southwest suburban cook county. | $60,000 |
| Deborah's Place | Essential health services for unhoused women in chicago | $60,000 |
| 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. | $60,000 |
| Legal Council for Health Justice | To protect and defend access to healthcare, as a co-lead of protect our care - illinois and other statewide advocacy coalitions. | $60,000 |
| Vivery Community | An at-home food delivery program in partnership with sinai chicago that provides consistent access to medically-tailored food for food-insecure patients managing chronic disease in under-resourced communities in chicago. | $60,000 |
| Wings Program Inc | The hospital program provides consultations and life-saving interventions to domestic violence survivors on-site at four area hospitals as well as continuing education training to healthcare professionals. | $60,000 |
| Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc | Has will expand in-person hours of our current nurse practitioner to include psychiatric evaluations, assessments, and medication management at three chicago and suburban cook county locations. | $56,000 |
| Alliancechicago | The community kitchen collaborative learning collaborative model will build practical knowledge and skills that can be applied cost-effectively at fqhcs to prevent and reverse diet-related disease. | $55,000 |
| Housing Forward | To support the salary and benefits of a nurse who assesses all clients in interim housing for health care needs and assesses clients in our other housing developments as referred. | $55,000 |
| Pillars Community Health | The loft at eight corners provides mental health wellness services and education to teens and adolescents. | $55,000 |
| Alliancechicago | Ican! Will accelerate its efforts to build a highly skilled community health and social service provider workforce that delivers and connects patients with person-centered contraceptive care. | $50,000 |
| Anew Building Beyond Violence and Abuse | Services for families experiencing domestic violence, as well as prevention and outreach services. | $50,000 |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | For outreach to people impacted by homelessness at shelters, schools, events, and tent cities. Services include health and public benefits access, and managing the streetlight chicago app and website. | $50,000 |
| Children's Research Triangle Inc | For the trauma treatment program which eliminates barriers to mental health treatment for medically underserved children and families by co-locating clinical services in schools and community-based organizations in communities with high unmet mental health needs. | $50,000 |
| Community Development Institute | To establish a school social worker position to provide mental health services to students at this alternative high school on chicagos south side. | $50,000 |
| Enlace Chicago | A community health worker initiative that teaches health literacy, connects people to insurance coverage, and helps them access healthcare resources. | $50,000 |
| Erie Family Health Centers | Advancingpractice is a one-year fellowship program that prepares adult, family and pediatric nurse practitioners and midwives to embark on careers dedicated to providing top-quality clinical care in medically underserved communities. | $50,000 |
| Everthrive Illinois | To address the challenges that providers, childbearing people, and families face in delivering and receiving high-quality care through training and technical assistance to providers and patients. | $50,000 |
| Facing Forward to End Homelessness | Individualized case management to support housing stability, improve health, and increase self-sufficiency. | $50,000 |
| Gads Hill Center | Healthy minds, healthy schools is a trauma-informed approach to school-based mental health care that equips students, parents and staff with the social-emotional competencies to sustain academic and personal growth. | $50,000 |
| Healing to Action | Through a powerful network of survivor-leaders healing to action will strengthen community-based, peer-to-peer responses to gender-based violence and connect survivors from marginalized communities to lifesaving health resources. | $50,000 |
| Housing Opportunities for Women | Hows health team provides intensive case management for clients living with HIV or AIDS and health education services to medically complex clients agency wide. Staff assist with applying for public benefits; managing medical appointments and more. | $50,000 |
| Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics | This project delivers initiatives and essential resources to promote the sustainability of free and charitable clinics, which provide a crucial role in the health safety net, ensuring that underserved communities have access to vital healthcare services. | $50,000 |
| Impact Behavioral Health Partners | To expand the clinical community referral program, which provides low-barrier, accessible mental health, case management, and employment services for very low-income individuals. | $50,000 |
| Marillac St Vincent Family Services | To support doula, home visiting, and early childhood education programs. | $50,000 |
| North Side Housing & Supportive Services | Personalized, on-site health services for clients experiencing homelessness. | $50,000 |
| PCC Community Wellness Center | To expand birthing choices for underserved women in chicago and increase our midwife staffing. | $50,000 |
| Refugeeone | Comprehensive preventative care and oral health education | $50,000 |
Officers and trustees
- Robert N Dileonardi
- Brigid E Kenney
- Arlene Michaels Miller PHD RN
- Jacqueline L Simon
- Sharmili Majmudar
- Jorgia B Connor PHD RN
- Brian Egwele
- Sandra Wilks
- Nancy Scinto
- Laura N Stern Cfa
- Marie C Winters
- Tanay Solov
- David Rutter
Questions people ask
Does Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation accept grant applications?
Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications, with this on deadlines: Grants are disbursed four times a year. See website for submission deadlines.
How much does Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation give?
$3.3 million in tax year 2024, across 64 grants, with a typical grant of $50,000.
Who runs Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation?
Its 2024 filing lists Robert N Dileonardi (Executive Director), Brigid E Kenney (Chair, Director), Arlene Michaels Miller PHD RN (Vice Chair, Director) and Jacqueline L Simon (Treasurer, Director) among 13 officers and trustees.
What does Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation fund?
Based on its grants, mainly health, education and human services.