· Public charity
Agency for Community Transit
Provide transportation related services for residents, businesses, governments and non-profits.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $870,320 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,050,469 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $180,149 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $587k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE OF PONTOON BEACH | $100,000 |
| CHALLENGE UNLIMITED | $100,000 |
| RIVERBEND HEADSTART & FAMILY SERVIC | $100,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICS PLUS | $93,537 |
| CHALLENGE UNLIMITED | $75,000 |
| HOLLY'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $66,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN IL | $52,100 |
| VILLAGE OF GLEN CARBON | $41,823 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER SOUTHWEST IL | $36,922 |
| CITY OF COLLINSVILLE | $35,000 |
| CITY OF VENICE | $31,281 |
| EDEN VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $24,978 |
| HOLLY'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $23,720 |
| MAIN STREET COMMUNITY CENTER | $19,055 |
| CMC ROTARY FOUNDATION | $17,588 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $553k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HHHollys House of Hope Incorporated3× · 2022–2024 · $118k · revenue +101% · 85% of their budget
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER SW ILLINOIS3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +43% · 42% of their budget
- TITHE ILLINOIS CENTER FOR AUTISM2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- COCity of Edwardsvilleone grant, 2023 · $100k
- VOVILLAGE OF PONTOON BEACHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- VTVENICE TOWNSHIP3× · 2022–2024 · $71k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.
To provide services to qualified persons in need of mental health care and alcohol and substance abuse counseling in the st. clair county illinois area, including residential assistance for the community.
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Social rehabilitation programs for adults with mental illness and intellectual and developmental disabilities that provide opportunties for personal growth and satisfaction through life skills training and social activities in a safe and…
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
Through the work of stone-hayes center for independent living, people with disabilities are empowered to improve their lives and independence!
Coleman tri-county services, inc. provides developmental training, social habilitation and rehabilitation services to persons with a disability primarily living in gallatin, saline, and white counties, illinois, in order that they may…
Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those suffering from some form of dementia.
The organization seeks to provide residential services for disabled adults and children, as well as behavioral health, regular work and supported employment services for these disabled individuals. additionally, developmental training and…
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Illinois Center for Autism and the most unlike its peers is Collinsville Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Hollys House of Hope Incorporated ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SW ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMARE NFP ↗
- Who funds YWCA SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds EDEN RETIREMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ILLINOIS CENTER FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS HEALING COMMUNITY BOARD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Agency for Community Transit funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.