· Private foundation
Charleston Area Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 39 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 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 ↗
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: The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Coles County Inc · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charleston Area Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charleston Area Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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