To further the mission of the Children's Care Foundation, grants are made to 501(c)(3) organizations in the Chicago area working to eradicate the effects of poverty on Chicago’s children. Funding is provided for programmatic services that give accountable results addressing such issues as: access to primary pediatric and related child health care, child abuse, educational and youth development, social services and delinquency prevention. Priority is given to community-based health care and health services for medically underserved poor children living in metropolitan Chicago. Please see Guidelines & Criteria for more detailed information. Thornton Burgess sitting with children gathered around him at the Home for Destitute Crippled Children Chicago Daily News, May 25, 1915