How much did COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

restoreneighborhoodsignificantboys youngyoung menscholarships

2019

neighborhoodfellowshipcirclerecoveryscholarshipsteachersmusical

2020

habitatpovertyfaithformerly incarceratedfinancialhealth careurbana

2021

health careurbanamannermental healthpropertyprincipalincome

2022

abilitywasteeveryoneboychoicesfreeget

2023

arts culturehealth carepresbyterian churchjewishassistingpropertyprincipal

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $218k
$10k–50k33 grants · $684k
$50k–250k5 grants · $374k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$133,590
THE HOPE CHEST$61,000
UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY$60,909
FRIENDS OF PEB INC$59,302
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHAMPAIGN$59,302
DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER$43,432
SPRING INITIATIVE$43,000
EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK$37,025
CU CHURCH$34,000
CU ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING$32,500
DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$31,985
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$28,675
CHAMPAIGN URBANA SYMPHONY$27,484
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS$27,284
CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME$26,575

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $564k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.0M · 77 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.0M

$843k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+41%

Still filing today

73%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $959k · revenue +9%
FO
FRIENDS OF PEB INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +13%
UW
UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +68%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF URBANA
one grant, 2021 · $99k
ST
ST THOMAS MORE
one grant, 2018 · $54k
HM
HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +67% · 40% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Champaign County Chamber of Commerce

We are a member focused business association that facilitates business growth and improves the quality of life in the region.

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Champaign County Community Development Corporation

Economic development within champaign county, il and surrounding communities

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Citizens Utility Board

Provide representation to illinois utility customers before state courts and commissions, and to educate illinois utility customers.

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Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health

Change Illinois

Change illinois is dedicated to activities that promote honest and effective government, open elections, and high levels of voter participation in illinois.

Civil Rights

Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

Charitable food distribution.

Food & Nutrition

Champaign County Soil and Water

To provide leadership and coordinate programs to help people conserve,improve and sustain our natural resources

Environment

Community Shares of Illinois

Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…

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United Way of Central Illinois Inc

Improving lives by addressing basic needs, financial stability and health of every person.

Philanthropy

Change Illinois Action Fund

Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…

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Chicago Municipal Employee's

Illinois state chartered credit union operated for the mutual benefit of its members

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Champaign County and the most unlike its peers is Rosecrance Health Network. 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 41 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%5/138

the rest of the field

257/3,463

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.

05the grantee network

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/96

Grantees still filing

79/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,189,349Education$1,527,461Human Services$1,263,932Philanthropy$1,135,763Food & Nutrition$333,072Youth Development$297,983Health$251,468

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.

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.

United Way of Champaign CountyIL81.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Champaign County · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · WGRC Inc · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · The Carle Foundation Hospital · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Meyer Charitable Foundation · Ezra Levin Foundation · Hartmann Family Foundation · Donnini-Rudolph Family Foundation · Vermilion Healthcare Foundation · The Lumpkin Family 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 organisation COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +67% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371333210 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 40% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Community Foundation of East Central?

Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of East Central through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation of East Central?

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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation of East Central?

More from the funding graph