· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 67 grants below total $1,275,834 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,707,379 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $431,545 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $218k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $684k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $374k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $133,590 |
| THE HOPE CHEST | $61,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY | $60,909 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHAMPAIGN | $59,302 |
| FRIENDS OF PEB INC | $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 |
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 (FY17–24, $564k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
University of Illinois Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $959k · revenue +127%- FOFRIENDS OF PEB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +15%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- COCITY OF URBANAone grant, 2021 · $99k
- HSHIGH SCHOOL OF ST THOMAS MORE OF CHAMPAIGN INCone grant, 2018 · $54k
- HMHELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -31% · 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.
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.
Economic development within champaign county, il and surrounding communities
To promote the health, welfare and prosperity of all the citizens of illinois by ensuring effective and democratic representation of utility consumers.
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.
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…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…
A public-private partnership dedicated to fostering a cooperative, county-wide approach to economic development.
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
Commonwealth credit union, building lifelong relationships one member at a time.
The chamber promotes and supports the business community through their program by advocating the best interests of its membership and by delivering excellence in membership services and benefits.
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…
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vermilion County Rape Crisis Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
96 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. 96 of the 151 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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PEB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CHEST OF PEKIN NFP ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES CENTER OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL ↗
- Who funds C-U ONE TO ONE MENTORING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds C-U AT HOME ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds DREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPTERISTS' SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MONTICELLO RAILWAY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HEALTHCARE NFP ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLA GRATIA FARM ↗
- Who funds HELEN MARY STEVICK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP UNISTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEADOWS ↗
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: 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
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 of East Central 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.
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.