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Community Foundation of the Quincy Area
Community foundation that accepts funds to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily the distribution of grants to local charities for the benefit of a 12-county area of west-central illinois and northeast missouri.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 111
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,191,353
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 111
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $86M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Community Foundation of the Quincy Area funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 82 | $4.5M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 111 | $10.0M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $5.6M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $1.8M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $970k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross International Inc | $6,312,800 | 4 | 1% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $1,683,583 | 2 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital | $1,311,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Palmyra Untied Methodist Church | $1,288,650 | 5 | n/a |
| Quincy University Corporation | $1,237,388 | 9 | 1% |
| Amigos For Christ Inc | $1,210,606 | 2 | 13% |
| Semilla Nueva | $1,180,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois | $877,320 | 3 | 6% |
| Beyond Housing Inc | $622,943 | 2 | 3% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield | $615,302 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 190 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of the Quincy Area supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 142 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Michelmann Foundation · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · United Way of Adams County Inc · Nuessen Family Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Blessing Hospital · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of the Quincy Area with peer funders
About Community Foundation of the Quincy Area
- How much does Community Foundation of the Quincy Area give?
- Community Foundation of the Quincy Area reported 86 itemized grants totaling $4,512,364, out of $5,818,146 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 111 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of the Quincy Area fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (33%), Education (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Community Foundation of the Quincy Area's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cross International Inc ($6.3M), Food for the Poor Inc ($1.7M), The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital ($1.3M).
- Does Community Foundation of the Quincy Area fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of the Quincy Area?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michelmann Foundation, The Jw Gardner II Foundation, Marion G Jackson Char Tr.
- Where is Community Foundation of the Quincy Area based?
- Community Foundation of the Quincy Area is based in IL.
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