· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 118 grants below total $9,995,206 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,351,313 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $356,107 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 $10k28 grants · $192k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSS INTERNATIONAL | $2,882,707 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $1,038,287 |
| AMIGOS FOR CHRIST | $860,083 |
| SEMILLA NUEVA | $780,000 |
| BEYOND HOUSING | $451,143 |
| CHURCH OF ST PETER | $335,000 |
| THE FND FOR BANRES-JEWISH HOSPITAL | $300,000 |
| ST JOHN'S ANGLICAN PARISH | $250,000 |
| THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK | $142,000 |
| THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES | $125,000 |
| QUINCY UNIVERSITY | $117,092 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS | $110,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD H CHARITIES CEN ILL | $97,192 |
| CREAMOS NORTE | $76,500 |
| CHADDOCK | $76,470 |
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 47 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, 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
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
- CICross International Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +8%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +58%
- AFAmigos For Christ Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%
Funded once
DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITYone grant, 2023 · $139k · revenue -5%- KHKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STLone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +3%
- NINPOWER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Dr Richard Eells House. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
136 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. 136 of the 172 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 Cross International Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Amigos For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA NUEVA ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACTION BROWN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUINCY SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL CHILD CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
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: 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
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 the Quincy Area 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.