· Private foundation
Blind Mission Project of Central Illinois
PROVIDING EYE CARE TO UNDERPRIVILEGED PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY UNIV | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE'S | $2,500 |
| PHYSICIANS MISSION INC | $2,500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $2,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,500 |
| STAND WITH UKRAINE | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $700 |
| DOVE INC | $700 |
| CENTRAL IL FOOD BANK | $500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $300 |
| CENTRAL A&M | $300 |
| THINKWELL-HOMESCHOOL NETWORK | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKansas City University4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +45%
SMILE TRAIN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +2%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IMINDIA MISSION TRIPone grant, 2023 · $6k
- PMPHYSICIAN MISSION INCone grant, 2023 · $2k
- SJST JUDEone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING STRONG SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BABY TALK INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blind Mission Project of Central Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blind Mission Project of Central Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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