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Church Women United in Illinois at a glance

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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.

$119k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Education$192kReligion$162kHuman Services$88kRecreation & Sports$67kHousing & Shelter$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$48kCrime & Legal$37kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $26,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $119,257 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,757 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENTMON CENTER$10,000
CU HOME SWEET HOME$8,500
COMMUNITY CARE CENTER$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FOOD PANTRIES: $25k → 7%BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY CARE CENTER: $8k → 14%FRIENDSHIP MANOR: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$436k · 7 repeat orgs$360k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
24

Total granted

$436k
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+79%

Still filing today

43%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IC
    ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $147k · revenue +103%
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY PARISH
    3× · 2019–2021 · $100k
  • CI
    CENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue -47% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • PL
    PROJECT LIFESAVER HENDRICKS COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $48k
  • FF
    FIRST FOLLOWERSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $37k · revenue +122%
  • NF
    Neighborhood Food Pantriesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +94%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Central Illinois Services

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…

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3
Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services
4
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago Inc

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.

Health
5
Community Nutrition Network and Senior Services Association

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)).…

Human Services
6
Commonwealth Credit Union

Commonwealth credit union, building lifelong relationships one member at a time.

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7
Central Illinois Credit Union

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…

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8
Community Foundation of Central Illinois Depositor
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9
Central Illinois Service Access Inc

Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.

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10
University of Illinois Community Credit Union

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.

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11
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
12
Access Credit Union

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Central College Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $147,242 · OtherILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONHOLY FAMILY PARISH: $100,210 · OtherHOLY FAMILY PARISHCU HOME SWEET HOME: $50,500 · OtherCU HOME SWEET HOMEPROJECT LIFESAVER HENDRICKS COUNTY INC: $48,015 · OtherPROJECT LIFESAVER HENDRICKS COUNTY INCTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $35,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE+19 more: $212,662 · Other+19 moreCENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE: $67,350 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL I…Neighborhood Food Pantries: $25,000 · Human ServicesBELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFIRST FOLLOWERS: $36,870 · Crime & LegalPeoria Riverfront Museum: $20,000 · Arts & CultureC-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY CARING CLINIC INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$593,629Recreation & Sports$67,350Human Services$58,000Crime & Legal$36,870Arts & Culture$20,000Education$10,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $147,242 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE: $67,350 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Food Pantries: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetLIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSauk Valley Foodbank: $9,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 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 FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC ↗
  • Who funds C-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN ↗
  • Who funds LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARING CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERSEALS FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Sauk Valley Foodbank ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CENTER 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Church Women United in Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Church Women United in Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 99%
  • Community Caring Clinic Inc: 99% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Church Women United in Illinois?

Find your warmest path to Church Women United in Illinois through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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