· Private foundation
Charleston Area Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF CHARLESTON | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| CITY OF CHARLESTON | $30,000 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY | $15,000 |
| HEDWIG HAUS OF HOSPITALITY NFP | $10,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COLES COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CITY OF CHARLESTON | $4,000 |
| STANDING STONE COMM CENTER NFP | $3,000 |
| THEATRE IN THE PARK CHARLESTON NFP | $976 |
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 (FY18–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LLLINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +239% · 53% of their budget
- EIEastern Illinois University Foundation4× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +41%
- CCCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- SBSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +28%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
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…
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
The trained volunteers of CASA of Effingham County work alongside legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect. These…
The society's mission is to collect preserve and disseminate information related to the history of rock island county illinois
To provide funding and support services in relation to the research and development of historical information regarding the state of illinois history.
Educational
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
To provide affordable housing to qualified individuals in Coles County, IL.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of East Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Christian Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 39 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 LINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Charleston Community Early Learning Center ↗
- Who funds HEDWIG HAUS OF HOSPITALITY NFP ↗
- Who funds SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIVE MILE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds CASA OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
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: The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Coles County Inc · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · 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 Charleston Area Charitable Foundation 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.
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