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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
67
Itemized grants FY2024
52
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$133,590
Organizations funded a year
28 to 58
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$39M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Community Foundation of East Central Illinois funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving66$1.2M30%
FY202352$1.1M17%
FY202256$1.2M32%
FY202158$1.5M31%
FY202053$1.2M40%
FY201944$939k48%
FY201835$957k37%
FY201728$810kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$992kYouth Development$945kHealth$862kPhilanthropy$572kArts & Culture$463kFood & Nutrition$330kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
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WI
MA
IN
PA
MO
VA
TN
DC
MS
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 136 grantees
All grantees of Community Foundation of East Central Illinois by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Illinois Foundation$959,23780%
First Presbyterian Church of Champaign$472,8358n/a
Friends of Peb Inc$470,32589%
United Way of Champaign County$469,70385%
The Hope Chest of Pekin Nfp$369,00089%
Developmental Services Center of Champaign County Inc$257,60380%
Spring Initiative Inc$252,00084%
Eastern Illinois Foodbank$227,36960%
Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il$178,70970%
C-U One to One Mentoring Scholarship Foundation In$178,500739%
Family Service of Champaign County$161,17182%
Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club$154,07682%
C-U at Home$138,02563%
Cu Christian Church$133,0005n/a
Girl Scouts of Central Illinois$124,88970%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$123,7213n/a
Griot Arts Inc$113,00084%
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra$107,77586%
Saint Matthew Roman Catholic Congregation$100,0253n/a
City of Urbana$98,6501n/a
Dreaam Opportunity Center$93,94951%
Orthopterists' Society$93,84285%
Monticello Railway Museum Inc$83,88081%
Champaign Parks Foundation$83,39789%
Promise Healthcare Nfp$79,13270%
Crisis Nursery$76,70741%
Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church$76,1325n/a
First String a Community Team Inc$66,0003n/a
Parkland College Foundation$57,23951%
The Salvation Army$54,1233n/a
High School of St Thomas More of Champaign Inc$54,0561n/a
Sola Gratia Farm$51,38564%
Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center$50,000140%
Camp Unistar Foundation$50,000113%
Copper Creek Church$50,0003n/a
Hope Meadows$49,82142%
Sangamon Valley Ceo Inc$46,7041n/a
Champaign County YMCA Stephens Family YMCA$46,05450%
Full Circle House$44,0006n/a
Hba of East Central Illinois$43,7171n/a
Champaign County Health Care Consumers$43,23136%
Urbana Parks Foundation$42,29123%
Vermilion County Rape Crisis Center$38,86041%
Elevated Access Inc$38,25023%
Shanna Hortin$38,0232n/a
Rape Advocacy Counseling & Education Services$36,19041%
CRIS Healthy Aging$35,00031%
Daily Bread Soup Kitchen Inc$35,00042%
Champaign-Urbana Schools Foundation$33,76943%
Willow Tree Missions Non-Profit Corporation$32,09243%
Mahomet-Seymour Schools Foundation For Academic Ex$31,93139%
Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center$31,9072n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$31,50030%
Docha$28,5323n/a
Rosecrance Inc$28,00040%
The Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County Inc$27,10027%
Monticello School Foundation$26,986118%
Champaign Church of the Brethren Randolph St Gardens$26,0002n/a
Grand Prairie Friends$25,66631%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$25,50010%
Courage Connection$24,70431%
First Presbyterian Church of Monticello$24,0442n/a
Douglas County Mental Health & Family Counseling Association Inc$23,01014%
Illinois Foundation Future Farmers of America$23,00031%
Forest Preserve Friends Foundation$22,11633%
Windsor Road Christian Church$20,0003n/a
Illinois Futbol Club$19,35222%
4 Osprey$18,0002n/a
Eastern Illinois University Foundation$16,00010%
Rosecrance Health Network$16,00020%
Champaign One to One Mentoring Scholarship Fund$15,0001n/a
Immigrant Services of Champagin - Urbana$15,00022%
Norix Group Inc$15,0001n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$14,8492n/a
Channing-Murray Foundation$14,62926%
Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County$14,39520%
Nat'L Assoc of American 408 Greater Champaign County Ambucs$14,200119%
City of Champaign Township$13,8652n/a
Sinai Temple$13,7282n/a
Coles County Council on Aging$13,67920%
East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual$13,02821%
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center$13,00011%
Community Resource & Counseling Cen$12,79520%
Mustard Seed Christian Daycare$12,50011%
Emmanuel Episcopal Church$12,5002n/a
Prairie Air Inc Dba Weft Radio$12,50027%
Shoreline Church Inc$12,0001n/a
College Park Church Inc$12,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Danville$11,76021%
The Land Connection Foundation Inc$11,54312%
Country Theatre Workshop$11,12626%
The Carle Foundation$10,75010%
The Uwm Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Illinois Amish Information Exhibits$10,00012%
Visit Champaign County Foundation$10,00015%
Mahomet Community Foundation$10,000124%
Chautauqua Township Historical Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Salvation Army & Its Components$10,0001n/a
Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Champaign Urban$10,0001n/a
Build My Future$9,2161n/a
The Baby Fold$8,70010%
Prairie Rivers Network$8,50011%
Prairielands Council #117 Boy Scouts of America$8,10311%
The UP Center of Champaign County$8,07113%
Champaign County Environmental Stewards$7,78114%
Champaign County Farm Bureau Foundation$7,77512%
Boys and Girls Club of Danville Area Inc$7,50011%
Worksource Enterprises$7,50010%
Persons Assuming Control of Their Environment Inc$7,50011%
Piatt County Mental Health$7,5001n/a
Champaign County Christian Health Center$7,50015%
Friends of the Kickapoo Rail Trail$7,5001n/a
The Well Experience Inc$7,50014%
Urbana Wesley Umc$7,5001n/a
Women in Need Recovery$7,4851n/a
Barber and Deatley Inc$7,4101n/a
Armstrong Builders$7,3911n/a
Young Men's Christian Association$7,19511%
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church$7,0001n/a
Rotary International District 6490$6,75118%
Parlin-Ingersoll Library$6,6001n/a
Grace Lutheran Church$6,5001n/a
Art Film Foundation$6,50012%
The Dwelling Place of Vermilion County$6,5001n/a
Dream Girls Academy$6,5001n/a
Illinois State University Foundation$6,0001n/a
Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church$6,0001n/a
United Way of Danville Area Inc$6,00011%
Hoopeston Multi Agency Service$5,99913%
Noble Network of Charter Schools$5,50010%
Champaign Co Casa$5,2881n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of the University of Illinois$5,21310%
Clark-Lindsey Village Inc$5,15510%
First Followers$5,1001n/a
Restoration Urban Ministries$5,1001n/a
New Covenant Fellowship$5,0001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Foundation of East Central Illinois supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $959,237 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Peb Inc: $470,325 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetUnited Way of Champaign County: $469,703 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetThe Hope Chest of Pekin Nfp: $369,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetDevelopmental Services Center of Champaign County Inc: $257,603 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSpring Initiative Inc: $252,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetEastern Illinois Foodbank: $227,369 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il: $178,709 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetC-U One to One Mentoring Scholarship Foundation In: $178,500 over 7y, 39% of budgetFamily Service of Champaign County: $161,171 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDon Moyer Boys & Girls Club: $154,076 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetC-U at Home: $138,025 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Central Illinois: $124,889 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGriot Arts Inc: $113,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetChampaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: $107,775 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetDreaam Opportunity Center: $93,949 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOrthopterists' Society: $93,842 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMonticello Railway Museum Inc: $83,880 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetChampaign Parks Foundation: $83,397 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetPromise Healthcare Nfp: $79,132 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCrisis Nursery: $76,707 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetParkland College Foundation: $57,239 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSola Gratia Farm: $51,385 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHelen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCamp Unistar Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHope Meadows: $49,821 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetChampaign County YMCA Stephens Family YMCA: $46,054 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChampaign County Health Care Consumers: $43,231 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetUrbana Parks Foundation: $42,291 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVermilion County Rape Crisis Center: $38,860 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $38,250 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRape Advocacy Counseling & Education Services: $36,190 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCRIS Healthy Aging: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDaily Bread Soup Kitchen Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetChampaign-Urbana Schools Foundation: $33,769 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWillow Tree Missions Non-Profit Corporation: $32,092 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMahomet-Seymour Schools Foundation For Academic Ex: $31,931 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRosecrance Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County Inc: $27,100 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMonticello School Foundation: $26,986 over 1y, 18% of budgetGrand Prairie Friends: $25,666 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Disaster Philanthropy Inc: $25,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCourage Connection: $24,704 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDouglas County Mental Health & Family Counseling Association Inc: $23,010 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetIllinois Foundation Future Farmers of America: $23,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetForest Preserve Friends Foundation: $22,116 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetIllinois Futbol Club: $19,352 over 2y, 2.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 87.

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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.

United Way of Champaign CountyIL85× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Champaign County · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · The Meyer Charitable Foundation · Wgrc Inc · The Carle Foundation Hospital · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ezra Levin Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Hartmann Family Foundation · Raynie 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.

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About Community Foundation of East Central Illinois

How much does Community Foundation of East Central Illinois give?
Community Foundation of East Central Illinois reported 67 itemized grants totaling $1,275,834, out of $1,707,379 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Foundation of East Central Illinois fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (12%), Religion (11%).
Who are Community Foundation of East Central Illinois's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Illinois Foundation ($959k), First Presbyterian Church of Champaign ($473k), Friends of Peb Inc ($470k).
Does Community Foundation of East Central Illinois fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of East Central Illinois?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Champaign County, Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc, Eastern Illinois Foodbank.
Where is Community Foundation of East Central Illinois based?
Community Foundation of East Central Illinois is based in IL.

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 151 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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