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Sinai Health System

Public charity · Grantmaker Chicago, IL EIN: 36-3166895 Website

Sinai Health System's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves.

Sinai Health System at a glance

In short: Sinai Health System reported $5K in grants paid in 2025 (a total; its filing lists no individual grants). Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.

Grants paid (2025)
$5,000 — reported as a total on the IRS filing, without an itemized list
-58.3% vs 2024
Total assets
$229,669,774
-0.3% vs 2024
Revenue (2025)
$112,479,570
-5.4% vs 2024
Net investment income (2025)
$172,337
-5.2% vs 2024
Expenses (2025)
$114,267,732
+5.7% vs 2024
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated October 2026.

Who Sinai Health System funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Grant Size Distribution

2 grants across all recorded years

2<$50K$50–100K$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M$1–5M$5M+

The most common grant size was under $50K: 2 grants of 2 (100%).

Geographic Focus

Where this funder awards grants

Grant Distribution by State

1state

States

Cities

Chicago

How Sinai Health System gives

  • Giving grew 33% from 2019 to 2022. Method

From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$5K$10K$15K$20K1 grant2019 1 grant2020 Total only2021 2 grants2022 Total only2023 Total only2024 Total only2025

From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $5K (2023) to $18K (2021). In 2025 it reported $5K in grants paid, as a total without an itemized list.

Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
Latinos Progresando Chicago, ILProgram Support$5,000
North Lawndale Employment Network Chicago, ILProgram Support$5,000
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrantsNet Investment Income
2025$229,669,774$112,479,570$114,267,732$5,000Total only$172,337
2024$230,438,607$118,941,763$108,095,223$12,000Total only$181,699
2023$235,850,900$89,089,493$92,877,222$5,000Total only$253,797
2022$247,481,082$98,056,845$89,513,852$10,0002$28,764
2021$281,453,478$93,419,606$82,501,361$18,000Total only$120,324
2020$238,311,110$82,146,908$73,649,613$7,5001$1,627
2019$186,221,683$67,059,975$66,000,023$7,5001$11,565

"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.

About Sinai Health System

Based on IRS filings

Sinai Health System is a public charity focused on Health, based in Chicago, IL. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $229.7M in total assets. In 2025, it reported $5K in grants paid as a total on its IRS filing, without an itemized list. Net investment income was $172K.

Focus Areas

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

Sinai Health System is led by Ngozi Ezike MD, President & CEO since 2024 (on filings since 2022); 6 of 40 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Ngozi Ezike MD

    President & CEO

    President & CEO → President & CEO -, 2023

    President & CEO - → President & CEO, 2024

    On filings since 2022

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Helen Margellos Anast

    President & Sinai Urban Health Institute

    President & Sinai Urban Health → President & Sinai Urban Health Institute, 2021

    On filings since 2020

    40 hrs/week

    $176K (2020) → $261K (2025)

  • Michael McConnell

    Executive Director Risk Management

    On filings since 2023

    40 hrs/week

    $194K (2023) → $204K (2025)

  • Christopher G. Pagluico

    Executive Director Finance

    New on the 2025 filing

    40 hrs/week

    $194K (2025)

  • Debra Wesley

    President - Sci

    President of Sinai Committee Inst → President - Sci, 2021

    On filings since 2019

    20 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Brian Dolan

    Director & Chairman

    Director Start → Director & Treasurer, 2021

    Director & Treasurer → Director & Chairman, 2023

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Abraham Morgan

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Alejandra Garza

    Director & Vice Chair -

    Director → Director & Vice Chair, 2023

    Director & Vice Chair → Director & Vice Chair -, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Anne Cohn Donnelly

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • David Smith

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Katya Nuques

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Lee Miller

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Leslie D. Davis

    Director & Secretary -

    Director → Director & Secretary, 2023

    Director & Secretary → Director & Secretary -, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Michael J. Hayes

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Robert S. Markin

    Director

    Director & Chairman → Director, 2020

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Roxanne J. Decyk

    Director

    Director & Secretary → Director & Vice Chair, 2020

    Director & Vice Chair → Director, 2021

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Vincent Williams

    Director -

    Director & Chair → Director, 2024

    Director → Director -, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Vivian Funches

    Director & Secretary -

    Director → Director & Secretary -, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Bret Maxwell

    Director

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kenneth Avner

    Director & Treasurer

    Director & Vice Chair → Director & Treasurer, 2023

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Nakisha Hobbs

    Director

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Onyinyechi Daniel

    Director

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Stephen A. Morales

    Director & Vice Chair -

    Director → Director & Vice Chair, 2024

    Director & Vice Chair → Director & Vice Chair -, 2025

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • William Grogan

    Director

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Avery Hart MD

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Michael R. Davenport MD

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Wilbur Milhouse

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Bartlett Johnson

    Director

    On filings since 2024

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Emily Doskow

    Director

    On filings since 2024

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Anthony Del Rio

    Director -

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Dimas Ortega

    CFO & Interim -

    Controller & Smg CFO → CFO & Interim -, 2023

    On filings since 2019

    4 hrs/week

    $167K (2019) → $0 (2025)

  • Joy Shulruff

    Legal Counsel & Hr Operations

    On filings since 2020

    40 hrs/week

    $201K (2020) → $248K (2025)

  • Daniel Regan Jr.

    Vice President, Communications Pr & Marketing

    On filings since 2021

    40 hrs/week

    $224K (2021) → $254K (2025)

  • Denisse Leon

    Vice President Bus Development & Prov

    Vice President Bus Development & Provider Enterprise Strat → Vice President Bus Development & Prov, 2024

    On filings since 2023

    40 hrs/week

    $238K (2023) → $294K (2025)

  • Jason N. Spigner

    Chief Human Resources Officer

    On filings since 2019

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Elizabeth Connolly

    General Counsel

    On filings since 2021

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kenneth Slawkowski

    Chief Information Officer

    On filings since 2022

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Iliana Andrea Mora

    Chief Operating Officer

    Chief Operating Officer - → Chief Operating Officer, 2025

    On filings since 2024

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Paul Goldberg

    CFO & Interim

    New on the 2025 filing

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Thomasina Wilkins

    Senior Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer -

    New on the 2025 filing

    4 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

Former officers (45)
  • Former: Karen Teitelbaum (2019–2024) — President & CEO -
  • Former: Leslie Mitchel-Bond (2019–2024) — Director -
  • Former: Wayne M. Lerner (2019–2024) — Director -
  • Former: Gary Krugel (2020–2024) — CFO -
  • Former: Rachel Sternberg (2020–2024) — Director -
  • Former: David Capone (2023–2024) — CFO & Interim -
  • Former: William Foley (2023–2024) — COO & Interim -
  • Former: Kristin Landini (2024) — Executive Director Labor
  • Former: Alex Pissios (2019–2023) — Director -
  • Former: Airica Steed (2020–2023) — Chief Operating Officer
  • Former: Nathalie Cordeiro Nunes (2022–2023) — Executive Director, D.e.i & Chief Diversity Officer
  • Former: Anne Donnelly Cohn (2021–2022) — Director
  • Former: Leslie Mitchel Bond (2021–2022) — Director
  • Former: Helen Anast Margellos (2022) — President & Sinai Urban Health Institute
  • Former: Susan Morelli-Puricelli (2022) — Vice President of Care Transformation & Clinical Excel
  • Former: Venu Piska (2022) — Executive Director, Strategic Service Lines & Bus I
  • Former: Brent Walter Spyrka (2019–2021) — System Director & Is Operations
  • Former: Eric Lenzo (2019–2021) — Vice President & Specialty Health Services
  • Former: Menai Edwards (2020–2021) — Executive Director, Hr Operations & Employee Relations
  • Former: Vivek Mehta (2020–2021) — Chief Information Officer · Filing note: Thru 71520
  • Former: Cherilyn Murer (2021) — Director
  • Former: Sr Immacula Wendt (2021) — Director
  • Former: Bob Wolfberg (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Immacula Wendt Sr. (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Keith Wakefield (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Ken Avner (2019–2020) — Director & Treasurer
  • Former: Laurie Hernandez (2019–2020) — Director & Chairman
  • Former: Loren Chandler (2019–2020) — Interim CFO
  • Former: Mark Frisch (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Matthew Doyle (2019–2020) — Interim CFO
  • Former: Rachel Dvorken (2019–2020) — Former General Counsel
  • Former: Tom Nodine (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Jordan Hadelman (2020) — Director
  • Former: Sharon Homan (2020) — President & Sinai Urban Health · Filing note: Until 050120
  • Former: Steven Karnezis (2020) — Sysem Director & Pmo
  • Former: Albert Grace (2019) — Director & Treasurer
  • Former: Alex duBuclet (2019) — Director
  • Former: Bakul Patel (2019) — Former Key Employee
  • Former: Bettylu K Saltzman (2019) — Director
  • Former: Charles Weis Jr. (2019) — Former Officer
  • Former: David Spielfogel (2019) — Director
  • Former: Jonathan Jonas (2019) — Director
  • Former: Laura Jarski (2019) — Director of Clinical Services
  • Former: Robert Shakno (2019) — Director
  • Former: Vikas A Shah (2019) — Director & Technical Services

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Compensation Overview

From 2025 IRS filing

Denisse Leon — Vice President Bus Dev & Prov: $294KDenisse LeonVice President Bus Dev & Prov$294KHelen Margellos Anast — President, Sinai Urban Health Institute: $261KHelen Margellos AnastPresident, Sinai Urban Health…$261KDaniel Regan Jr — VP, Communications PR and Marketing: $254KDaniel Regan JrVP, Communications PR and…$254KJoy Shulruff — Legal Counsel, HR Operations: $248KJoy ShulruffLegal Counsel, HR Operations$248KMichael McConnell — Executive Director Risk Management: $204KMichael McConnellExecutive Director Risk…$204KChristopher G Pagluico — Executive Director Finance: $194KChristopher G PagluicoExecutive Director Finance$194K

The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $294K, to Denisse Leon (Vice President Bus Dev & Prov). 6 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.

Frequently asked questions about Sinai Health System

How much does Sinai Health System give each year?

Sinai Health System reported $5K in grants paid in 2025 on its 2025 IRS Form 990, as a total without an itemized list of grants. In 2024 it reported $12K in grants paid.

How large is Sinai Health System?

Sinai Health System reported $229.7M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $112.5M.

What is Sinai Health System?

Sinai Health System is a public charity focused on Health, based in Chicago, IL. It holds $229.7M in total assets as of 2025.

Where does Sinai Health System operate?

Sinai Health System has awarded grants in Illinois.

What is Sinai Health System's EIN?

Sinai Health System's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 36-3166895. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(8)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 12, 2021)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS May 14, 2020)
  3. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 10, 2023)
  4. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 13, 2022)
  5. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 14, 2024)
  6. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 15, 2025)
  7. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 14, 2026)
  8. IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2019–2024

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