High-quality, culturally-competent physical, mental, and behavioral health care is crucial to leading a productive and fulfilling life.
Schreiber Philanthropy aims to enhance the availability and accessibility of this type of care, with a focus on underserved communities, so all people can live happy and healthy lives.
Funding Area
Health
Our Strategy
Schreiber Philanthropy centers its health strategy around five key priorities.
Our work is focused within the Chicagoland region, and will evolve based on the dynamic nature of the world we live in. With that in mind, we are committed to learning alongside our partners and being nimble in our strategy to achieve these goals.
Health Priorities
Strengthen Chicago’s Safety Net Hospitals by investing in the broader community health ecosystem and exploring alternatives to the current funding model that supports Safety Net providers.
Invest in innovative workforce pathways to fuel economic mobility and improve health outcomes in high-need communities.
Engage philanthropy to leverage public efforts to improve access to high-quality care at the Federal, State, County, City, and Municipal levels.
Invest in enhanced access to high-quality prenatal and maternal health to improve early childhood outcomes.
Sustain long-term investments in community health access initiatives across Chicago and Lake County.
Grantee Spotlight
Erie Family Health Centers
Erie Family Health Centers (Erie) is one of the largest Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC) systems in Illinois, providing comprehensive primary care, specialty services, dental care, behavioral health services, and care coordination to nearly 96,000 patients across Chicagoland each year.
Erie serves communities where access to affordable health care is often limited, ensuring families can receive consistent, high-quality care, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. Schreiber Philanthropy partners with Erie Family Health Centers to support its HealthReach clinic in Waukegan and the Erie Sankofa Village Health Center on Chicago’s West Side. These sites expand access to community-based primary care, behavioral health services, and preventive care in communities where health disparities remain significant.
Grantee Spotlight
CommunityHealth
CommunityHealth is one of the country's largest free and charitable clinics, providing free, high-quality care to uninsured and underinsured adults across Chicagoland. Each year, thousands of patients rely on CommunityHealth for primary care, specialty services, medications, and care coordination that would otherwise be out of reach. By mobilizing a large network of volunteer physicians, nurses, and health professionals, the organization expands access to care while helping patients manage chronic conditions and navigate a complicated health system.
CommunityHealth plays a critical role in Chicago’s health care system. By providing comprehensive care for individuals who fall outside traditional coverage options, the organization helps reduce unnecessary emergency room visits, stabilize chronic health conditions, and connect patients to longer-term health resources as they become available. Schreiber Philanthropy’s partnership with CommunityHealth is rooted in ensuring that individuals facing significant financial barriers can receive consistent, dignified, and culturally-competent care, regardless of their ability to pay.
Grantee Spotlight
Chicago Department of Public Health’s Healthy Chicago Mental Health Collective
Disparities in the availability of high-quality, affordable behavioral health services persist across Chicago, particularly in neighborhoods facing historic underinvestment where residents often encounter long wait times and limited access to coordinated care. In some communities, the ratio of mental health providers to residents is significantly lower than the city-wide average, creating additional barriers to timely support. The Chicago Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) Healthy Chicago Mental Health Collective (HC-MHC) works to address these gaps by strengthening coordination among community-based providers, improving shared data systems, and enhancing collaboration across the city’s behavioral health ecosystem.
Schreiber Philanthropy has invested in CDPH’s powerful HC-MHC model to strengthen coordination, infrastructure, shared measurement systems, and capacity across providers, and ultimately improve access to care.
Rather than funding isolated services, this investment supports the connective tissue of Chicago’s behavioral health system, helping providers align resources, improve continuity of care, and expand access to more integrated and equitable behavioral health services across the city.
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Impact
Without access to high-quality, affordable healthcare, the path toward economic stability is nearly impossible to navigate. For the past two decades, John and Kathy have invested in physical, mental, and behavioral healthcare in Chicago and in Lake County.
Since 2005
$115M in Grants
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