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Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc

Community foundation for the land of lincoln connects people who care with causes that matter.

$2.2M
Granted FY2017
75
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$274k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$20MEducation$612kHuman Services$268kHealth$205kReligion$147kCommunity Improvement$105kArts & Culture$104kEnvironment$94kOther$0
02FY2017 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 75 grants below total $1,861,975 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,209,168 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $347,193 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 · FY2017

  • Under $10k28 grants · $194k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $831k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $564k
  • $250k+1 grant · $274k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$273,500
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$138,500
SIU FOUNDATION$115,000
INNOVATE SPRINGFIELD$104,500
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$100,000
ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL GARDEN$54,100
KIDZEUM$51,452
WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN$45,000
COMMUNITY CONNECTION POINT$45,000
SENIOR SERVICES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC$40,600
ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$40,500
LINCOLN MEMORIAL GARDEN FOUNDATION$40,300
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$32,450
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - GREATER ILLINOIS CHAPTER$30,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$29,769
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COMMUNITY CONNECTION POINT: $45k → 11%THE PARENT PLACE: $21k → 11%THE OUTLET: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Southern Illinois Community Foundation

To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.

Philanthropy
2
Springfield Illinois African American History Foundatio

We tell authentic stories about African-American life in Central IL past and present, celebrating and sharing our history and culture and planning for our future. We enhance cultural life of our area.

Arts & Culture
3
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
4
Springfield Boys & Girls Club Foundation

Unification and growth of the resources available to support activities of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Illinois, including safeguarding funds and growing the principal balance.

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5
Helping Hands of Springfield Inc

To identify problems facing the poor and homeless in springfield, il and to implement and coordinate services to help address those problems.

Housing & Shelter
6
Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation

Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.

Philanthropy
7
Advocates for Illinois Children

Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.

Human Services
8
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
9
Cpa Endowment Fund of Illinois

To ensure a strong, talented, and diverse cpa profession in illinois by encouraging individuals to choose accounting as a career choice and become a cpa, and by supporting students, particularly those in need, in achieving the cpa.

Education
10
Illinois Community College System Foundation

The illinois community college system foundation serves all 48 illinois community colleges in the state of illinois, providing student scholarships, programs, services, and general funds.

Philanthropy
11
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community Foundation of East Central Illinois

To promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness, and to bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Presidential Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 41. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%0%<5yr9%5%5–10yr13%15%10–20yr11%20%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr40%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%0%<5yr9%0%5–10yr13%95%10–20yr11%1%20–35yr14%1%35–55yr40%3%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/71
the rest of the field
6%
105/1,774

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM — $138,500 · OtherMEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $45,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD — $44,750 · OtherST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH — $40,500 · OtherSPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 186 — $34,700 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $40,600 · Other+45 more — $564,923 · Other+45 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $273,500 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Fou…SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $135,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSI…+3 more — $25,000 · Education+3 moreTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,250 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS — $5,900 · PhilanthropyNEW COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC — $104,500 · Community ImprovementCommunity Child Care Connection Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT PLACE — $21,000 · Human ServicesThe Outlet — $10,000 · Human ServicesAbraham Lincoln Memorial Garden Foundation Inc — $94,400 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $51,452 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD MUNICIPAL OPERA ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$908,973Education$433,500Philanthropy$143,150Community Improvement$104,500Human Services$101,000Environment$94,400Arts & Culture$76,452

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $273,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC — $104,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAbraham Lincoln Memorial Garden Foundation Inc — $94,400 over 1y, 20% of budgetCommunity Child Care Connection Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $40,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis — $27,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompass for Kids Inc — $25,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCONTACT MINISTRIES — $21,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PARENT PLACE — $21,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SANGAMON COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois — $14,050 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE ILLINOIS CAPITAL REGION INC — $13,900 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Outlet — $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD IN — $9,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetOne Hope United — $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph's Home of Springfield — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY — $7,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS — $5,900 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER JAMES COURT ASSOCIATION — $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUNICIPAL OPERA ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
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.

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.

Levi Ray & Shoup Foun…Green Family Charitab…M G Nelson Family Fou…United Way of Central…The Cellini Family Fu…Horace Mann Educators…Memorial Health Syste…Memorial Health SystemAa Harvey FoundationSusan C House - Educa…Carmax FoundationGod's Out Reach of Sh…
Levi Ray & Shoup FoundationIL42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Green Family Charitable Foundation · M G Nelson Family Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr · Horace Mann Educators Foundation · Memorial Health System Group · Memorial Health System · Aa Harvey Foundation · Susan C House - Educational Xxxxx7008 · Carmax Foundation · God's Out Reach of Sherman Inc

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 Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6.4M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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