· Public charity
Church Women United in Illinois
Bring christian women together, united in their faith, to work towards the betterment of the community and the development of women's full potential in society.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $26,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $119,257 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $92,757 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENTMON CENTER | $10,000 |
| CU HOME SWEET HOME | $8,500 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- ICILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $147k · revenue +103%
- HFHOLY FAMILY PARISH3× · 2019–2021 · $100k
- CICENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue -47% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- PLPROJECT LIFESAVER HENDRICKS COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $48k
- FFFIRST FOLLOWERSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $37k · revenue +122%
- NFNeighborhood Food Pantriesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +94%
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.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
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…
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
To Provide counseling, crisis intervention, case management, psychosocial rehabilitative and vocational services to mentally ill and substance abuse clients in outpatient and community based settings.
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)).…
Commonwealth credit union, building lifelong relationships one member at a time.
The credit unions purpose is to provide its membership a full range of quality financial services at competitive rates. we are committed to member service in a friendly atmosphere, long-term financial stability, promotion of thrift, and…
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
To assist our members in the management of their financial well-being by providing loans, savings accounts and other financial services in a friendly and professional manner.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Illinois state chartered credit union operated for the mutual benefit of its members. the credit union makes loans to members and pays dividends to members with share deposits at a competitive rate of interest.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Central College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community Caring Clinic Inc. 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 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 ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FIRST FOLLOWERS ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Food Pantries ↗
- Who funds Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARING CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds C-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Sauk Valley Foodbank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Church Women United in Illinois 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.
- Community Caring Clinic Inc — 99% of income from government
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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